[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, CLOSURE: "Air Force delays start of PFAS cleanup at Wurtsmith [AFB, MI] for up to 5 years"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force delays start of PFAS cleanup at Wurtsmith for up to 5 years

By Melissa Nann Burke
Detroit News (MI)
May 23, 2026

Washington ― The U.S. Air Force is pushing back by up to five years the expected start of construction for PFAS remediation in the area around the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in northern Michigan, where military activities left behind PFAS compounds that leached into waterways and drinking water wells.

The development prompted questions this week from Michigan lawmakers who pressed Air Force leaders on the reasoning behind the delay and asked them to reassess.

"That's 25 years after contamination was first identified in the state, and we just can't keep this community waiting forever," U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, said during a Senate Armed Services hearing.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/22/air-force-delays-pfas-pollution-cleanup-wurtsmith-base-oscoda-michigan/90211763007/

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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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