Air Force, CDC to Monitor Effects from Pease Contamination

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Air Force, CDC to Monitor Effects from Pease Contamination

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/03/05/air-force-cdc-to-monitor-effects-from-pease-contamination.html
 
Associated Press | Mar 05, 2016

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- The US Air Force has teamed with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor residents exposed to contaminated water from the now-closed Pease base.

The Portsmouth Herald reports that Air Force Secretary Deborah James said Thursday that officials are developing a plan for health monitoring near the Portsmouth base, with the CDC taking the lead.

An Air Force report submitted in September says 454 civilians and 6,128 service members were potentially exposed to poisonous chemicals found in water from the Haven well at Pease International Tradeport in 2014.

James says the Air Force regrets that sometimes communities "get contaminated to a certain degree." But she says the military branch is prepared to "take the right action and clean it up."

[EdinVA]

http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20140522/NEWS/140529897

State, Pease and local officials speculate that the PFOS found in the well came from firefighting foam used by the Air Force “starting around 1970 ... and consequently contaminated the well.” The former Pease Air Force Base is a Superfund site being cleaned up by the U.S. Air Force with oversight by the N.H. Department of Environmental Services and EPA.
Mullen said the Haven Well that was shut down is on the airfield “between the apron and the runway.”

Great plan... put the well right next to the runway and then pour foam down it.