[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, FUEL: ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Red Hill [HI] Groundwater Warrant More Investigation

[Lenny Siegel]

‘Forever Chemicals’ In Red Hill Groundwater Warrant More Investigation, Regulators Say The problem goes beyond a high-profile spill of firefighting chemicals in 2022, officials said. 

By Christina Jedra   
Honolulu Civil Beat (HI)
March 7, 2024

   
Detections of toxic chemicals near the Navy’s Red Hill fuel complex indicate the facility has a “wider” problem with so-called PFAS contamination than previously known, according to state and federal regulators. 

In a March 1 letter to the Navy, officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Hawaii Department of Health said test results show the soil and groundwater around Red Hill is tainted with PFAS, a class of “forever chemicals” that don’t break down in the environment. 

Officially known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS may be dangerous to consume even in small amounts, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Testing of six of the 21 monitoring wellsaround Red Hill showed PFAS levels in excess of EPA standards last year. 


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For the entire article, see
https://www.civilbeat.org/2024/03/forever-chemicals-in-red-hill-groundwater-warrant-more-investigation-regulators-say/

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Lenny Siegel
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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)