[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Brunswick [ME] group organizing to do widespread PFAS screening in wake of toxic foam spill"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brunswick group organizing to do widespread PFAS screening in wake of toxic foam spill
The Brunswick Renters Organization is gearing up to create a database of PFAS levels around Brunswick Landing, highlighting concerns about toxic chemical exposure in marginalized communities and the need to raise awareness of contamination history at the former military base. 



By Kristian Moravec
Times Record (ME)
Novemberf 11, 2024

In the wake of the worst toxic firefighting foam spill in Maine’s history, a renters organization is working to better inform the public and widely test for toxic forever chemicals in Brunswick Landing.

The Brunswick Renters Organization is compiling requests for a bulk order of home test kits for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — better known as PFAS or “forever chemicals.” The aim, it said, is to create a database of contamination levels around the former Brunswick Naval Air Station while raising awareness about the long-running history of military contamination.

On Aug. 19, a fire suppression system at Brunswick Executive Airport’s Hangar 4, a property owned by the Navy and leased by the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, malfunctioned and spilled 1,450 gallons of firefighting foam concentrate mixed with 50,000 gallons of water. The concentrate — an aqueous film-forming foam known as AFFF — contained a particularly harmful PFAS substance known as PFOS.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.pressherald.com/2024/11/11/brunswick-group-organizing-to-do-widespread-pfas-screening-in-wake-of-toxic-foam-spill/

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Lenny Siegel
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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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