[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Addressing PFAS Contamination at Moffett Federal Airfield, California"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Addressing PFAS Contamination at Moffett Federal Airfield, California

by Peter Strauss and Lenny Siegel
CPEO
September, 2023

In August 2022 NASA’s Ames Research Center published a bulky draft Site Inspection (SI) Report, listing 26 areas of potential concern (AOPCs), locations at Moffett Federal Airfield, at the southern reach of the San Francisco Bay, where PFAS have been detected or are suspected. Most of the AOPCs had elevated levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) released by the Navy while it was operating the Moffett Naval Air Station there. Most, but not all of the documented releases of PFAS were from Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF), used by the military to fight and train to fight aircraft fires. NASA’s stated priority is to prevent the additional discharge of PFAS to the Bay, but its efforts may be limited by inadequate funding.

To read or download the CPEO report, go to http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/MoffettPFAS.pdf

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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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