[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "PFOS in Kendaia Creek fish tied to Seneca Army Depot [NY] contamination ..."

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFOS in Kendaia Creek fish tied to Seneca Army Depot contamination: Seneca Lake suffers

by Peter Mantius
Finger Lakes 1 (NY)
October 14, 2023 6:10 AM


Small fish from a creek that originates in the former Seneca Army Depot and empties into Seneca Lake are contaminated with PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ at tens of thousands of times the state’s limit for public drinking water.

The findings suggest Kendaia Creek may be contaminating Seneca Lake and may help explain why fish caught in Seneca tend to have higher PFAS levels than fish caught in several other Finger Lakes.

State tests of 20 fish taken from Kendaia Creek in or near the former depot in 2019 showed levels of PFOS (a common PFAS variant) ranging from 81,000 parts per trillion to 374,000 ppt, according to a Sept. 28, 2023 report obtained by WaterFront under the Freedom of Information Law.

PFOS is considered so hazardous that the state Department of Health requires public water systems to undergo expensive cleanup measures if it exceeds 10 ppt in their tap water. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering that enforceable PFOS tap water threshold to 4 ppt.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.fingerlakes1.com/2023/10/13/pfos-in-kendaia-creek-fish-tied-to-seneca-army-depot-contamination-seneca-lake-suffers/

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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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