[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Unsafe levels of forever chemicals found" near former Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Unsafe levels of forever chemicals found at Brunswick golf course
The state is calling on the Navy to test more wells in the area of Mere Creek Golf Course, which is about 1.5 miles from the site of Maine's largest firefighting foam spill.

By Penelope Overton
Portland Press Herald (ME)
March 17, 2025

Unsafe levels of forever chemicals have been found in the well water of a golf course about a mile and a half southwest of the Brunswick Executive Airport, the location of Maine’s largest documented spill of firefighting foam laced with toxic forever chemicals.

The results of a Jan. 23 test at Mere Creek Golf Course — 33.1 parts per trillion of the six forever chemicals that Maine limits in drinking water — has Brunswick and Maine officials calling on the Navy, which operated a naval air base there until 2011, to run more tests.

The state thinks this contamination may be a result of the Navy’s past activities at the base, not the spill.

The 33.1 parts per trillion, or ppt, is 65% higher than the 20 ppt limit allowed by Maine’s drinking water standards. New federal drinking water limits cap perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, at no more than 4 ppt. The golf course’s PFOS level is 19.9 ppt.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/17/unsafe-levels-of-forever-chemicals-found-at-brunswick-golf-course/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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