[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Navy looks to test drinking wells for potential 'forever chemicals' from" St. Juliens Creek Annex, VA

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy looks to test drinking wells for potential 'forever chemicals' from Chesapeake base

by Caitlyn Burchett
Virginian-Pilot
February 8, 2024

Nicole Jones read a poster's laundry list of health effects from drinking water contaminated by chemicals found in firefighting foam: high cholesterol, changes in liver enzymes, preeclampsia in pregnant women, low infant birth weight and cancer.

Jones and her husband read the poster at a public meeting organized by the Navy to inform residents that decades ago, toxic "forever chemicals" had potentially contaminated groundwater at the St. Juliens Creek Annex in Chesapeake and trickled into nearby neighborhoods. About a dozen community members came to G.A. Treakle Elementary to find out about free sampling for drinking wells in the affected area.

The sampling, which officials said will take place over the next few weeks, will look for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances that might be present in drinking wells as a result of the Navy's and fire training academy's past use of firefighting foam on base.

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For the entire article, see
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-navy-wells-potential-chemicals-chesapeake.html

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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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