[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "New Mexico wants lake on [Holloman ] Air Force base closed"

[Lenny Siegel]

New Mexico wants lake on Air Force base closed

By SUSAN MONTY BRYAN
Associated Press
May 9, 2019

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico’s top prosecutor is demanding that the U.S. Air Force close a publicly accessible lake at Holloman Air Force Base, saying Thursday the concentration of hazardous chemicals at the site poses a risk to public health and the environment.

In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Attorney General Hector Balderas told Air Force officials that sampling shows the contamination — linked to chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS — are dozens of times higher than federal health advisory levels.

In the case of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, the samples showed 84 times more than the advisory levels set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.apnews.com/0c25aebb565046f883d2b675fd3193bf

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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