Severe PFAS contamination in Annapolis, Maryland
Bay Head Park was once a Navy weapons site
By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
October 15, 2023
What could go wrong? The Children’s Theater of Annapolis is located on a former Navy Weapons testing facility. It is surrounded by the former burn pad (orange), three Nike missile silos (purple), and a former toxic septic field. (yellow). Groundwater and surface water are profoundly contaminated with PFAS and a host of other toxins.
Often, federal lands are returned to local jurisdictions with little or no oversight regarding dangerous contamination. In Maryland, a popular park and home of the Children’s Theater of Annapolis was once a Navy weapons testing center.
Six years ago, the Navy informed the Environmental Health Office of Anne Arundel County, Maryland that groundwater at Bay Head Park was seriously contaminated with PFAS. See the March 20, 2017 letter and examine the Groundwater sampling results from 11/28/2016, particularly Sample ID # DPT-16-31-GW-19-23:
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Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.orgP.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org 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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