[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Foam spill at former Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Foam spill flushes wave of toxic chemicals into troubled Androscoggin River
'We will be dealing with the fallout of this for generations to come,' says Ed Friedman, chairman of Friends of Merrymeeting Bay. 


By Penelope Overton
Portland Press Herald (ME)
September 24, 2024

The Brunswick Executive Airport chemical spill sent thousands of gallons of toxic firefighting foam down the sewer drains bound for the Androscoggin River, which has only recently begun to rewrite its century-long history of industrial pollution.

The pipes carried the spill under the 3,100-acre former naval air station to the sewer plant, where it was treated for some of its nastier contaminants but not the forever chemicals that make aqueous film-forming foam, or AFFF, so dangerous. Its next stop? The Androscoggin.

Four days after the Aug. 19 spill, the wastewater chugging from a riverbank outfall pipe across from Cow Island clocked in at 11,689 parts per trillion for the six forever chemicals Maine uses to evaluate drinking water safety, according to water quality tests conducted by the Friends of Merrymeeting Bay.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.pressherald.com/2024/09/24/foam-spill-flushes-wave-of-toxic-chemicals-into-troubled-androscoggin-river/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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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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