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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums(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.
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
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That's the site of the infamous Aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) test gone wrong
NutmegYankee
Mar 2016
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NutmegYankee
(16,177 posts)1. That's the site of the infamous Aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) test gone wrong
frogmarch
(12,144 posts)2. Thanks! I just posted the
video link at Chadrad, where I got the info in my post.
NutmegYankee
(16,177 posts)3. I suspect the contaminent is PFOA.
It serves as a surfactant.