[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Open house guides residents through Navy's 'forever chemicals' approach near Camp David" (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Open house guides residents through Navy's 'forever chemicals' approach near Camp David

By Emmett Gartner 
Frederick News-Post (MD)
March 2, 2023

Navy, state and Frederick County officials on Wednesday gave residents near Camp David a crash course on “forever chemicals” and the Navy’s efforts to identify and potentially remediate any possible contamination near the base.

The Navy was scheduled to begin testing residential wells near a one-mile radius of Camp David on Thursday due to past base operations that could have resulted in the release of chemical compounds known as PFAS through firefighting foam.

PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are called “forever chemicals” due to their ability to persist in humans and the environment for an extended period of time.

The open house at Camp Round Meadow in Catoctin Mountain Park on Wednesday included multiple stations with informational displays providing a timeline on the Navy’s efforts to identify PFAS contamination at Navy facilities nationwide and near Camp David.

…

For the entire article, see
https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/environment/open-house-guides-residents-through-navys-forever-chemicals-approach-near-camp-david/article_40e2ea64-27bb-5ea6-968c-d4c6f433700f.html

—

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org