The Naval Air Station Patuxent River in southern Maryland has continued to expand, contributing to rapid population growth in the surrounding area. There are approximately 17,500 military, civilian, contractors and nonappropriated fund personnel that work at the Naval Air Station on a normal day. But with expansion comes higher scrutiny on environmental impacts, and Patuxent River NAS has definitely made an impact.
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PFAS, or per- and poly fluoroalkyl substances, are extraordinarily toxic, bio accumulative, and they never break down in nature. The chemicals are linked to a host of cancers and they threaten the unborn fetus in the tiniest amounts. They are extremely dangerous.
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On July 10, 2018 Michigan’s MLive Media Group reported that a U.S. Coast Guard maintenance hangar at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base near Mount Clemons, Michigan experienced an “inadvertent discharge of about 20 gallons of AFFF foam” on June 7. AFFF is aqueous film-forming foam that contains toxic chemicals containing a variety of per- and poly fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. They are used in fire-fighting foams.
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Thousands of gallons of per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances, (PFAS) have polluted the groundwater, surface water, soils and the sewer systems in and around Beale Air Force Base.
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Last week I disrupted the initial Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) meeting for citizens of Chesapeake Beach who live close to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory – Chesapeake Bay Detachment, or NRL-CBD as the Navy prefers to call it. Chesapeake Beach is a highly contaminated Navy town just 35 miles southeast of Washington.
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I’m curious about potential exposures at a Maryland Army base in the 1950s, Is this too long ago to look into? Is it pointless? My father wound up with prostate cancer, but many decades later. He ultimately died of a brain tumor at age 80.