[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, GLOBAL: "U.S.-Japan pact hampers PFAS survey at U.S. facility in Hiroshima"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S.-Japan pact hampers PFAS survey at U.S. facility in Hiroshima

Japan Times/Chugoku Shimbun
April 15, 2024

In the wake of the discovery of high levels of potentially harmful PFAS chemicals in well water around a U.S. military facility in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, efforts have been made to identify the source of the contamination, but they have hit a roadblock — the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement.

The city has asked the U.S. military to conduct an environmental survey of its Kawakami Ammunition Depot, but so far, no progress has been made. One expert believes that there is a room to urge the U.S. forces to take action within the scope of an existing agreement and urged the local community to continue with their appeals for action.

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Recently, high levels of PFAS — exceeding a government-set provisional limit of 50 nanograms per liter — were detected in wells along the Seno River that runs near the Kawakami Ammunition Depot.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/15/japan/japan-pfas-survey-us-base/

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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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