[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Camp Ripley [MN] to test nearby residents’ water for 'forever chemicals’"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Camp Ripley to test nearby residents’ water for 'forever chemicals’

By Kirsti Marohn
Minnesota Public Radio
May 9, 2023

Officials at Camp Ripley in central Minnesota are testing the drinking water of some residents who live outside the camp’s borders for so-called “forever chemicals.”

The camp has been testing its own water for the past several years for PFAS, found in firefighting foam that was used for testing and training at the military training facility until 2017. 

But this marks the first time officials have expanded testing for the chemicals beyond the camp’s boundaries, as the U.S Department of Defense deals with a massive PFAS contamination problem at military bases across the U.S.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/05/09/camp-ripley-to-test-nearby-residents-water-for-forever-chemicals

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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