[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Pollution in St. Inigoes Creek near Patuxent River Naval Air Station (MD)

[Lenny Siegel]

ADVISORY: Public Meeting on PFAS Pollution in St. Inigoes Creek; Quote from NAS
 
Press Release
St. Mary's River Watershed Association
February 28, 2020

Lexington Park, Md. - Water taken from St. Inigoes Creekearlier this month was tested by an independent lab and was determined to have 1,894 ppt (parts per trillion) in total PFAS - well beyond the safe limit according to the Michigan lab. The EPA has an advisory for levels above 70 ppt PFAS in drinking water.

Contamination in Michigan led to a state advisory on eating fish and venison from the local area - the advisory states that no consumption level is safe. Oysters tested near the now-shuttered Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire contained 55,000 ppt of PFAS.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0220/advisory-navy-alerts-public-to-pfas-pollution-public-meeting-at-lexington-park-library-march-3rd.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
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