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frogmarch

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Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:53 PM Mar 2016

(SD)-Firefighting Foam May Have Polluted Ellsworth AFB Groundwater

http://chadrad.com/newsstory.cfm?story=39216

The Pentagon plans to test groundwater at Ellsworth Air Force Base outside Rapid City following a warning from federal regulators that training scenarios may have polluted it.

KOTA-TV says the Environmental Protection Agency believes perfluorinated compounds in foam used in military firefighter training may have contaminated the water at Ellsworth and many other bases around the country.

Air Force officials believe the foam might have been used at 200 installations and 4 of 30 bases tested so far do show drinking water sources with levels above the EPA limit. Those four bases are located in New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania and Alaska.

To keep the situation from getting any worse, Air Force has limited the use of the foam to actual emergencies and is replacing it with a cleaner version.

Groundwater testing at Ellsworth will begin in October and if pollution is found, the Air Force will prepare and execute a cleanup plan.


October? wtf?
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(SD)-Firefighting Foam May Have Polluted Ellsworth AFB Groundwater (Original Post) frogmarch Mar 2016 OP
That's the site of the infamous Aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) test gone wrong NutmegYankee Mar 2016 #1
Thanks! I just posted the frogmarch Mar 2016 #2
I suspect the contaminent is PFOA. NutmegYankee Mar 2016 #3
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