[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "NC DEQ says Fort Liberty’s [former Fort Bragg, NC] plans for addressing nearby water contamination are inadequate"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

NC DEQ says Fort Liberty’s plans for addressing nearby water contamination are inadequate

BY LISA SORG 
NC Newsline
JUNE 21, 2023 

State environmental regulators criticized Fort Liberty’s plan to test off-base drinking water for toxic PFAS, saying it fails to account for all of the potential contamination, according to correspondence dated June 6. In addition, the NC Department of Environmental Quality told base officials that letters they sent to nearby landowners about well testing were misleading. 

Although not mentioned in DEQ’s correspondence, some people whose wells are contaminated because of Fort Liberty might not qualify for free replacement water. That’s because the Army is using the EPA’s 2016 health advisory goals for two types of the compounds, which have since been updated, although not finalized. 

Landowners who are connected to municipal water – but also might use private wells for drinking, irrigation, or recreation – “are not being notified of the possibility of contamination,” according to a letterfrom Tessa Monday, an environmental engineer with DEQ’s Division of Waste Management, to Fort Liberty officials.

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For the entire article, see
https://ncnewsline.com/2023/06/21/nc-deq-says-fort-libertys-plans-for-addressing-nearby-water-contamination-are-inadequate/

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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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