[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Dover Air Force Base, DE

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dover Air Force Base in planning stages of PFAS cleanup in water supply

By Abigail Lee
Delaware Public Media
June 7, 2025

The Dover Air Force Base is in the early stages of a long-term cleanup project to improve water quality and mitigate forever chemical contamination.

The base restoration program manager LeRoy Demarest said there are other contamination sites but these three have the highest potential impact to human health because the contaminants have migrated.

Demarest’s team installs filtration systems in places with dangerous PFAS and PFOA levels.

“Ideally, we would move to a more enduring solution,” Demarest said. “Those things would include connecting to municipal waterways or water lines, like the City of Dover, Tidewater. And we're working on a partnership with the city right now to connect some of those properties.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.delawarepublic.org/science-health-tech/2025-06-07/dover-air-force-base-in-planning-stages-of-pfas-cleanup-in-water-supply


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Lenny Siegel
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