[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "PFAS foam used at Ford Airport [MI] uphill from homes"

[Lenny Siegel]

PFAS foam used at Ford Airport uphill from homes

By Ken Kolker
WOOD TV-8 News (Grand Rapids, MI)
March 28, 2018 

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The same PFAS-laced firefighting foam that has polluted lakes, rivers and wells around Air Force bases was used extensively at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport, Target 8 has found.

Three former Ford Airport fire chiefs told Target 8 the likely carcinogen drained into the ground untreated. They said the airport and the state should test the wells of nearby homes.

"They need to identify the plume, if there is one, and they need to immediately advise the people downstream to stop drinking the water," former Airport Fire Chief Glen Lathers said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.woodtv.com/news/target-8/pfas-foam-used-at-ford-airport-uphill-from-homes/1085854590

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