[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Air Force Refusing To Pay For PFAS Contamination Of Mashpee Wells, " Joint Base Cape Cod, MA

[Lenny Siegel]

Air Force Refusing To Pay For PFAS Contamination Of Mashpee Wells

By RYAN SPENCER
Mashpee Enterprise (MA) 
August 11, 2021

The US Air Force is refusing to reimburse Mashpee Water District taxpayers for treatment of two wells with levels of contamination from Joint Base Cape Cod that exceed Massachusetts drinking water standards.

The water district sent a demand letter to the Air Force in May after voters approved an estimated $8.5 million filtration system to remove PFAS contaminants from drinking water supplies on Turner Road.

PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals” because they never fully degrade, are a class of manmade chemicals that have been linked to low infant birth weights, suppression of the immune system and cancer.

The use of firefighting foams at Joint Base Cape Cod more than two decades ago is the known source of several plumes of PFAS contamination that have infiltrated numerous wells on the Upper Cape, including the two Turner Road wells.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.capenews.net/mashpee/news/air-force-refusing-to-pay-for-pfas-contamination-of-mashpee-wells/article_7c86161f-4bbf-5d32-bb98-bf881ec89b88.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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)