[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: South Burlington Vermont Air National Guard base

Lenny Siegel lsiegel at cpeo.org
Tue Mar 31 18:26:59 PDT 2020


Air Guard base contributes to PFAS contamination in the Winooski River

By Elizabeth Gribkoff
VT DIgger (VT)
March 31 2020

PFAS contamination has been found in groundwater and surface water — including a stretch of the Winooski River — near the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington. 

The findings come in a draft report released last week by the Guard on the extent of the contamination by the so-called “forever chemicals” - largely from now-banned firefighting foam - at the 281-acre base. State Department of Environmental Conservation staff need to review the report before it is finalized. 

“This has been a very thorough process to determine potential impacts from the use of PFAS on our base and I am encouraged that we can now move toward the next phase of this critically important work,” said Col. Adam Rice, 158th Fighter Wing vice commander, in a prepared statement. He added that elevated PFAS levels were not found in drinking water on or off-base. 

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For the entire article, see
https://vtdigger.org/2020/03/31/air-guard-base-contributes-to-pfas-contamination-in-the-winooski-river/

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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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