[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Dayton board wants EPA to take emergency action against Wright-Patt [AFB, OH] over forever chemicals"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dayton board wants EPA to take emergency action against Wright-Patt over forever chemicals

by Cornelius Frolik
Dayton Daily News (OH)
September 30, 224

Dayton’s Environmental Advisory Board wants the U.S Environmental Protection Agency to take emergency action to try to make Wright-Patterson Air Force Base clean up PFAS contamination in the ground water.

The city’s Environmental Advisory Board is asking state political leaders to urge the U.S. EPA to take the same or similar action against Wright-Patt as the agency did against the U.S. Air Force and Arizona Air National Guard in Tucson, Arizona.

The EPA Region 9 office ordered the Air Force and Arizona Air National Guard to take measures to remediate and clean up toxic “forever chemical” contamination in the groundwater allegedly from their facilities that threatens the drinking water supply. The Air Force has challenged that order.

Dayton’s Environmental Advisory Board said the contamination levels of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) entering the Mad River Well Field are much higher than those in the Tucson well field and the local water system serves far more people.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-board-wants-epa-to-take-emergency-action-against-wright-patt-over-forever-chemicals/IJUD2HAWUZD53F2LAVT3WM6F7E/

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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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