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This is the latest chemical issue for groundwater contamination springing up at military bases everywhere over the past 18 months.  If not already an issue at Camp Lejeune, it likely soon will be. Here’s what we found in recent articles that caught our eye:

PFCs, PFOA and PFOS are becoming the latest spotlight issue in a long line…

WAFB began operations in 1923, under the name of Camp Skeel, and was officially named the Wurtsmith Air Force Base in 1953.  The base is located in Oscoda, Iosco County, Michigan. WAFB closed in 1993 and is gradually being turned over to the Oscoda Airport Authority for reuse as an industrial park and airfield (EPA 2012).  The 5,221-acre site is bounded by Van Etten Lake to the north and east, Oscoda and Au Sable Townships to the east and south, the Huron National Forest (including wetlands associated with the Au Sable River) to the south, and the Au Sable State Forest to the north and west.  Lake Huron is less than one mile east of the site (ATSDR 2001).

Yet another article in the past month or two regarding yet another military base in need of a clean up.  At Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire, the EPA has uncovered that perflourooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) was found in wells at Pease in May 2014.

In our ongoing search into other bases across the U.S. facing contamination issues, we stumbled upon a recent article detailing water pollution found in water samples at Grissom Air Reserve Base in Indiana.