[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst , NJ

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFAS contamination leads Manchester to plan for new water system

by Amanda Oglesby
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
June 5, 2024

MANCHESTER ― The firefighting teams on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst could not have known decades ago that extinguishing fires during training exercises would have long-lasting impacts on the drinking water of people downstream.

For years, drills on the base used firefighting foams that smothered gasoline and jet fuel fires with relative ease. These so-called aqueous film-forming foams used by the military as well as local fire departments across the nation spread dangerous and long-lasting chemicals into the Joint Base's soil, where it remained for years and then spread into the water sources of surrounding towns.

These "forever chemicals," or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), now contaminate surface water and some drinking water supplies for the base's neighbors in Manchester and Pemberton townships.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.app.com/story/news/local/land-environment/2024/06/05/pfas-from-joint-base-spreads-forever-chemicals/73787631007/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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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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