[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin contaminates the Newport Beach region with PFAS
Fish and people are contaminated

by Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
May 16, 2023

An obscure report by the Navy in 2022 on the Former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin describes high levels of PFAS escaping the base 23 years after its closure in 1999. 

The Final Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection Report on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, Former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, describes the migration of the carcinogens and various pathways to human exposure. The report provides a kind of PFAS roadmap to human ingestion.

Frightening concentrations of PFAS in groundwater and surface water are draining from the area of the old base and creating a public health crisis that few are willing to acknowledge. PFAS levels were reported at 836,600 parts for trillion (ppt) for three compounds tested in the groundwater: PFOA (743,000), PFOS (26,900) ppt, and PFBS (66,700).  The EPA says it will set enforceable drinking water limits at 4 ppt for PFOS and PFOA by the end of this year. Commercial labs can test for 55 compounds so there is a lot the U.S. Navy isn’t telling us. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/former-marine-corps-air-station-tustin-contaminates-the-newport-beach-region-with-pfas

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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
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