[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, GLOBAL: Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

‘No clear evidence’ Okinawa PFAS contamination comes from US base, Japan’s military says

By MATTHEW M. BURKE  
STARS AND STRIPES 
May 9, 2023

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The mayor of Kin town, home of the Marine Corps’ Camp Hansen in central Okinawa, wants a formal inquiry into the source of toxic PFAS chemicals found in local water.

The town’s environmental division discovered elevated levels of PFAS in five of 14 sites sampled near Camp Hansen in November, a town spokesman told Stars and Stripes by phone Monday. 

The highest levels were found downstream of an industrial waste site where U.S. military waste was also deposited.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2023-05-08/okinawa-pfas-camp-hansen-marine-corps-10056079.html

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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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