2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:57:36 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS, CLOSURE: Brunswick Landing (ME) sewer pipes
 
Contaminated groundwater at Landing possibly in sewer pipes

BY DARCIE MOORE
Brunswick Times-Record
July 3, 2018


Contaminated groundwater at Brunswick Landing may have seeped into wastewater pipes bound for the Brunswick Sewer District, which discharges treated water into the Androscoggin River.

It’s unknown how much, if any perfluorinated compounds — or PFCs — have leeched into the sewer lines at the former base.

Federal and state environmental officials do not yet have a process for regulating PFCs, manufactured compounds used in fire suppressant foam — as well as everyday objects — and an emerging contaminate found at many airports and military installations.

It’s an issue the Brunswick Sewer District is paying attention to. The five-member board of trustees last week voted unanimously to take over ownership of seven miles of gravity wastewater sewer lines at Brunswick Landing as of July 1, seven years after the base closed.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.timesrecord.com/articles/front-page/contaminated-groundwater-at-landing-possibly-in-sewer-pipes/

[Sorry. I combined two messages earlier. -LS]

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