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As of March 10, 2011, there were 94 Superfund sites on the National Priorities List in California. [2] Three additional sites have been proposed for entry on the list. [2] Twelve sites have been cleaned up and removed from the list. [2] One site was proposed for entry and then removed.
December 1, 2023 at 2:16 AM. MASHPEE — A new study detailing the scope of so-called “forever chemicals” in private groundwater wells near military bases across the country has found 17 wells ...
As of August 17, 2022, there were 1,329 Superfund sites in the National Priorities List in the United States. [2] Forty-three additional sites have been proposed for entry on the list, and 452 sites have been cleaned up and removed from the list. [2] New Jersey, California, and Pennsylvania have the most sites. [3]
1942-1944, 1951-1958 1966-1981. Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant is located just outside Riverbank, California, in Stanislaus County. [1] The facility was built in 1942 as an aluminum reduction plant operated by Alcoa producing 48,000 tons per year for World War II aircraft manufacture until 1944. It was reactivated in 1951 for the Korean War ...
Groundwater treatment systems will be installed near a military base in northern Michigan to address contamination from high levels of toxic, widely used “forever chemicals,” the U.S ...
Feb. 3—SANTA FE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced two proposed rules "to ensure that certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as 'forever ...
Early 2018 Department of Health & Human Services's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) was about to publish its assessment of PFAS chemicals, with a focus on two specific chemicals from the PFAS class—PFOA and PFOS—that have "contaminated water supplies near military bases, chemical plants and other sites from New York ...
Military bases. The water in and around at least 126 U.S. military bases has been contaminated by high levels of PFASs because of their use of firefighting foams since the 1970s, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Defense. Of these, 90 bases reported PFAS contamination that had spread to drinking water or groundwater off the base.