[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "PFAS found beneath Tarheel Army Missile Plant [NC], military failed to tell DEQ"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFAS found beneath Tarheel Army Missile Plant, military failed to tell DEQ
Discovery is the latest in a series of damning revelations at Burlington facility that abuts a low-income neighborhood

BY: LISA SORG 
NC Newsline
APRIL 17, 2024

Groundwater beneath the former Tarheel Army Missile Plant in Burlington contains two types of toxic PFAS at levels hundreds, even thousands of times higher than proposed state standards. Yet the military never informed the Department of Environmental Quality of its findings — even though officials from both agencies attended the same meeting about contamination at the plant last fall.

Contractors hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducted the sampling in January 2023 as part of a nationwide study of military locations where PFAS might have been used. There are at least 15,000 types of PFAS compounds, among them PFOS and PFOA.

At the Tarheel Army Missile Plant PFOS was found in groundwater beneath the old chrome plating facility at 210 parts per trillion. PFOA was detected in groundwater at 39 ppt in the same location, documents obtained by Newsline show.

Groundwater near the missile plant’s old wastewater treatment facility also contained levels of both PFOA and PFOS far above proposed limits  — 93 ppt and 43 ppt, respectively.

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For the entire article, see
https://ncnewsline.com/2024/04/17/pfas-found-beneath-tarheel-army-missile-plant-military-failed-to-tell-deq/

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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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