[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Vint Hills Farms Station (VA)

[Lenny Siegel]

The Army says Vint Hill water is safe. Experts say otherwise.

By Hunter Savery 
Fauquier Times (VA)
October 6, 2023

For residents of Vint Hill, the legacy of a long-ago military training site is having lasting environmental effects, and the safety of drinking water has become a growing concern as a particular type of contaminant known as “forever chemicals” are being better understood. 

Military burn pits may conjure images of toxic smoke in faraway desertscapes, but for decades one served as a training ground for military firefighters in Fauquier County’s Vint Hill. While the Army closed the base in 1997, the firefighting foams used in that burn pit remain trapped in the soil, leaching the toxic chemicals into Vint Hill’s groundwater for decades. 

Vint Hill is one of more than 700 former and current military sites where “PFAS” chemicals are presenting major health and environmental risks to local communities. The Army Corps of Engineers continues to tell Fauquier County authorities, residents and business owners that the levels of PFAS detected in their water supply are no reason for alarm. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/the-army-says-vint-hill-water-is-safe-experts-say-otherwise/article_4605e760-7e8a-5593-abf7-3b37b085c260.html <https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/the-army-says-vint-hill-water-is-safe-experts-say-otherwise/article_4605e760-7e8a-5593-abf7-3b37b085c260.html>

See also
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/vint-hill-virginia-the-dod-has-reported-pfas-in-drinking-water-and-groundwater-at-hundreds-of-thousands-of-times-over-an-epa-health-advisory <https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/vint-hill-virginia-the-dod-has-reported-pfas-in-drinking-water-and-groundwater-at-hundreds-of-thousands-of-times-over-an-epa-health-advisory>

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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)

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