2017 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:22:15 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFCs: Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center (MI)
 
Contaminated groundwater found at CRTC


by STEVE SCHULWITZ
Aleena News (MI)
October 13, 2017

ALPENA - Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center has become the third military base in Michigan that has tested positive for perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid in groundwater and an effort is under way to see if and how far the contamination has spread. 

Alpena joins Camp Grayling and the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base as military locations where contamination has been located. It is likely well testing outside the base will begin shortly.

At Thursday’s Alpena County Board of Commissioners Airport Committee meeting, CRTC base civil engineer Capt. Brian Blumline said five locations at the base were tested in the spring and the results of the preliminary results came in earlier this week. He said the levels of PFOA were elevated at all of the sites. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thealpenanews.com/news/local-news/2017/10/contaminated-groundwater-found-at-crtc/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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