[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Testing offered at Fairchild Air Force Base (WA)

[Lenny Siegel]

Private well owners near site of Fairchild contamination can have water tested by Indiana researchers


By Kip Hill 
Spokane Spokesman-Review (WA)
August 18, 2021

Researchers at the Indiana University are offering to foot the water testing bill for private well owners near the site of chemical contamination at Fairchild Air Force Base.

The study, backed by a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, is intended to give chemists and government officials a better idea of how per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known by the acronym PFAS, compounds found in firefighting foam used on the base for decades, can infiltrate groundwater.

“Our goal really is to build these, basically, trained machine learning methods to try to predict where around the sites you might find the worst levels of contamination,” said Jacquelin MacDonald Gibson, chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupation Health at Indiana University’s School of Public Health, and the study’s lead researcher.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/aug/18/private-well-owners-near-site-of-fairchild-contami/

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