[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Battle Creek Air National Guard Base to test for PFAS contamination"

[Lenny Siegel]

Battle Creek Air National Guard Base [MI] to test for PFAS contamination


By John Tunison
MLive (MI)
April 11, 2018

BATTLE CREEK, MI -- U.S. Air Force officials say they'll test groundwater and soil at the Battle Creek Air National Guard Base to look for possible contamination from past use of firefighting foam.

Analysts expect to begin taking samples of groundwater, soil, surface water and sediment beginning April 16.

The samples will be tested for contamination related to a toxic chemical - per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances - that were once used on Air Force bases to battle petroleum fires.

The foam, AFFF, also was widely used at commercial airports.

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Fort the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2018/04/battle_creek_air_national_guar_4.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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