EPA deems Wright-Patt groundwater status ‘not under control’
By Thomas Gnau
Dayton Daily News (OH)
March 3, 2025
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has informed Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that its migration of PFAS contaminated groundwater is deemed “not under control,” a change from the base’s previous status.
The update came in a Dec. 16 letter from the Chicago office of the EPA to John Crocker, a remedial project manager at Wright-Patterson.
PFAS are commonly used, long lasting chemicals which break down very slowly.
The notification came after the EPA published new “maximum contaminant levels” or “MCLs” for PFAS (sometimes called “forever chemicals”) in drinking water: 4 parts per trillion (ppt) for two of the chemicals, PFOA and PFOS.
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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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
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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