[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Van Etten Lake, former Wurtsmith Air Force Base, MI

[Lenny Siegel]

Questions posed, input shared on Van Etten Lake cleanup plan

By Jenny Haglund
Oscoda Press (MI)
October 5, 2021
 
	
OSCODA – In addition to an Aug. 31 meeting hosted by the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC), the proposed interim remedial action (IRA) plan for Van Etten Lake (VEL) at Ken Ratliff Memorial Park was also discussed at the latest Wurtsmith Restoration Advisory (RAB) meeting. It was a hybrid event, with some people participating online and others joining in person, at the Shoreline Players Community Theatre.

The IRA options laid out on Aug. 31, which included talks on the preferred approach for reducing the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) entering VEL at the park in Oscoda, were summarized in the Sept. 15 edition of this publication. As noted, the IRA will address PFOS and PFOA, which are two types of PFAS compounds. These and other PFAS are migrating into VEL from the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base (WAFB), via groundwater (GW), as a result of the aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) used at the site when it was an active base. 

The remedial action alternatives proposed were pump-and-treat using granular activated carbon (GAC), pump-and-treat by ion exchange or no action, with the AF’s preferred route being the GAC option.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.iosconews.com/oscoda_press/news/article_0a1ba780-25ef-11ec-87ee-8bec43ccaf7a.html

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