[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "PFAS in groundwater around Fort Bragg [NC] remain high as new legislation aims to stop pollution from military bases"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFAS in groundwater around Fort Bragg remain high as new legislation aims to stop pollution from military bases 
Bills introduced in Congress would force the Department of Defense to stop releasing “forever chemicals” into environment

by Evey Weisblat
City View (Cumberland County, NC)
August 14, 2025

A bill in the U.S. Senate would instruct military installations to stop releasing “forever chemicals” into surrounding communities like Spring Lake, where groundwater is contaminated with PFAS from Fort Bragg. 

The Department of Defense PFAS Discharge Prevention Act would require the department to regularly monitor for PFAS pollution and implement measures to limit contaminated stormwater runoff. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, introduced the legislation on July 28. A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a similar measure earlier this year in the U.S. House.

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Testing of wells around Fort Bragg this year has continued to show unsafe levels of PFOA and PFOS in private wells. In many cases, the levels were well above the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety limits of 4 parts per trillion. The wells tested are in Spring Lake, within a one-mile radius of Fort Bragg, Army officials previously said. The latest test results, which were recorded in the last week of March, found wells with contamination levels as high as 29 ppt for PFOA and 32 ppt for PFOS, more than seven times the EPA’s limit. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.cityviewnc.com/stories/pfas-in-groundwater-around-fort-bragg-remain-high-as-new-legislation-aims-to-stop-pollution-from-military-bases/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
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