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Aug. 30—Tears in a retention pond lining at Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis were discovered this month following a July leak of water contaminated with PFAS. Drinking water wells at the base ...
The Air Force pointed to a $25 million federal grant from the state to build a new PFAS pretreatment plant for the Tucson Airport Remediation Project, also known as TARP. The letter also ...
Sep. 17—The Air Force Civil Engineer Center released a recorded update of the Department of the Air Force's on-going actions to address per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) identified at ...
Before Reese Air Force Base closed, it was home to training Air Force Firefighters to extinguish life-threatening fires using foam containing PFAS. After using this substance for many years at the base, it began seeping into the groundwater. The Air Force is continually checking bases for PFAS to this day.
Air Force completed the PFAS Preliminary Assessment, Site Inspection, and planned the Remedial Investigation under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. Air Force performed three removal actions and planned two interim remedial actions . [ 4 ]
March 2010 The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) found PFAS contamination at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base (WAFB) after sampling a former fire training area on the base. Finding a mean concentration of 5,099 ppt of PFOS and 1,309 ppt of PFOA in Clark's Marsh in Oscoda, Michigan nearby WAFB. [ 65 ]
Those include the Holloman and Cannon Air Force bases and an Army National Guard site in the Santa Fe area. Much less attention has been given to how PFAS affects wildlife and ecosystems.
Foam Fractionation utilizes the air/water interface of a rising air bubble to collect and harvest PFAS molecules. The hydrophobic tail of many long-chain criteria PFAS compounds adhere to this interface and rise to the water surface with the air bubble where they present as a foam for harvesting and further concentration.