[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Marine Corps Outlying Landing Field Atlantic (NC)

[Lenny Siegel]

Atlantic well investigation ongoing

by ELISE CLOUSER
Carteret County News-Times (NC)
February 15, 2019

ATLANTIC - The U.S. Navy is moving forward with the investigative phase of a well water sampling program that found potentially dangerous levels of chemicals in the drinking water of at least two residential wells in the area surrounding Marine Corps Outlying Landing Field Atlantic.

The Navy began the voluntary sampling program near the end of 2017 to test for the presence of chemicals known as perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in drinking water. Officials are interested in two PFAS chemicals in particular – perfluorooctane sulfante (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) – that may have been used in a firefighting agent known as aqueous film forming foam in past Navy activities near the base.

Gunnery Sgt. Robert White with the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point communication strategy and operations office, said as of December, 269 wells have been sampled. Of those, several were found to have trace amounts of the chemicals, and two wells contained concentrations of PFAS exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency’s lifetime health advisory standard of 70 parts per trillion.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.carolinacoastonline.com/news_times/article_e4916b5e-3135-11e9-b542-136f3a68d5e6.html

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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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