[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: National Guard study at Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Department Of Defense To Fund Study Of Westfield Airport Groundwater Contamination
The study will determine the extent to which DOD is responsible for PFAS pollution.

By SARAH ROBERTSON
Montague Reporter (MA)
January 26, 2023

WESTFIELD – A decade after groundwater contaminated with PFAS was first detected in the public water supply near the Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport, the Air National Guard has announced it will begin a “remedial investigation” of the problem. Soil and water samples taken in the vicinity of the airport will help to determine the extent of the contamination, and the scope of the US Department of Defense (DoD)’s responsibility to remediate it.

“There’s a possibility there are other sources,” Bill Myer, an environmental restoration program manager for the Air National Guard, told The Shoestring. “Everyone thinks it’s all the Air National Guard for PFAS, but there’s other sources of PFAS that are out there.”

At a January 12 virtual meeting of local, state and federal officials working on the PFAS problem in Westfield, Myer announced that the Westfield base had been approved for a yet-to-be-disclosed amount of federal money to conduct the remedial investigation.

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For the entire article, see
https://theshoestring.org/2023/01/26/department-of-defense-to-fund-study-of-westfield-airport-groundwater-contamination/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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