[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Calculating Brunswick’s [ME] 'Cleanup' Price Tag"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Calculating Brunswick’s “Cleanup” Price Tag

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
December 9, 2025

The Navy at Brunswick West and Brunswick East allocated $0 for investigation and cleanup of PFAS in 2024 and they have allocated $0 for investigation and cleanup after FY 2024.  Although the Navy and its lackies will claim this isn’t a fair comparison, Whidby Island NAS in Washington State spent $21 Million cleaning up PFAS in 2024 and has allocated $32 Million after that. Puget Sound, Washington allocated $19 Million last year. It’s not a fair comparison because the press in Washington state has been relentless with their investigations while the state’s congressional delegation is unrelenting. 

Neither Whidby nor Puget Sound have been subjected to the apocalyptic spill Brunswick endured on August 19, 2024 when PFOS with a concentration of 3.2 billion parts per trillion (ppt), and total PFAS of  3.78 Billion ppt bubbled out of Hangar 4. Search “Hangar 4” and you find 60 hits.  It’s quick to go through it. 

Hangar 4’s spill on August 19, 2024 is believed to be the highest concentration of PFAS ever known to have entered the environment anywhere on earth, aside from Red Hill, Hawaii, and Kadena Airbase in Okinawa, Japan.  Still, it is dwarfed by the total of all of the mostly chronic, ongoing releases at Brunswick since the early 1970’s.

The Navy should not be able to “talk a good talk, move some dirt around, plant some grass seed, and call it a day,” as one congressional staffer remarked, predictably, off the record. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/calculating-brunswicks-cleanup-price-tag

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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