[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, FORMER SITES: Bayhead Park, Annapolis, MD

[Lenny Siegel]

Severe PFAS contamination in Annapolis, Maryland
Bay Head Park was once a Navy weapons site

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
October 15, 2023

What could go wrong? The Children’s Theater of Annapolis is located on a former Navy Weapons testing facility. It is surrounded by the former burn pad (orange), three Nike missile silos (purple), and a former toxic septic field. (yellow). Groundwater and surface water are profoundly contaminated with PFAS and a host of other toxins. 

Often, federal lands are returned to local jurisdictions with little or no oversight regarding dangerous contamination. In Maryland, a popular park and home of the Children’s Theater of Annapolis was once a Navy weapons testing center. 

Six years ago, the Navy informed the Environmental Health Office of Anne Arundel County, Maryland that groundwater at Bay Head Park was seriously contaminated with PFAS. See the March 20, 2017 letter and examine the Groundwater sampling results from 11/28/2016, particularly Sample ID # DPT-16-31-GW-19-23: 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/severe-pfas-contamination-in-annapolis-maryland <https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/severe-pfas-contamination-in-annapolis-maryland>

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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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