[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, REUSE: "ICE planning facility for children and families on Pfas-contaminated [former England Air Force Base, LA]"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

ICE planning facility for children and families on Pfas-contaminated site
High concentration of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in groundwater at former military facility in Louisiana

By Tom Perkins
Guardian
April 25, 2026

Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning a detention facility for children and their families on one the nation’s most Pfas-contaminated sites, which also serves as a hub for the president’s deportation program.

The England air force base, now called England Airpark, is a sprawling former military facility in Louisiana where Pfas levels in the groundwaterhave been found at at least 41m parts per trillion (ppt).

Federal drinking water limits for several Pfas compounds range from 4 to 10ppt, meaning the levels have been at least 575,000 times higher than the limit. Military bases are often contaminated with high quantities of Pfas, but England’s groundwater has shown the highest levels ever recorded, and it is among the most Pfas-polluted sites in the US.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/pfas-chemicals-ice-family-detention


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
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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