[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: DC sewage sludge contaminated

[Lenny Siegel]

Sewer Sludge from Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant in Washington, DC is highly contaminated with PFAS
Report by DC Statehood Green Party warns of the dangers of PFAS in the city.
Greens point to toxic Bloom Soil Conditioner, a product of DC Water

By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
July 31, 2021


The DC Statehood Green Party (Green Party)  sent a letter this week to Tommy Wells, Director of the Washington, D.C. Department of Energy & Environment, warning of unregulated PFAS contamination in the nation’s capital. The left-of-center party cited a study by the Sierra Club and the Ecology Center  that found astronomical levels of toxic PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in Bloom Soil Conditioner produced by DC Water’s Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant. The product, sold in hardware stores in the district, contains 100% sewer sludge, euphemistically referred to as  “biosolids.” 

The firm SGS AXYS Analytical Services measured levels of PFAS chemicals in the soil products from  nine garden fertilizers in eight states and the District of Columbia. Total PFAS ranged from 38,000 parts per trillion (ppt) to 223,000 ppt. 

Bloom soil conditioner was the most contaminated at 223,000 ppt for all PFAS tested.  Bloom’s product contained 23,800 ppt of Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and 22,100 ppt of Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), two of the most toxic varieties of PFAS.

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https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/sewer-sludge-from-blue-plains-advanced-wastewater-treatment-plant-in-washington-dc-is-highly-contaminated-with-pfas

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Lenny Siegel
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)