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North Kansas City: The site was used by a series of herbicide businesses, including for manufacturing purposes, between 1948 and 1986. A 1989 inspection detected contamination from arsenic, pentachlorophenol, 2,4-D, and 2,4,5-T. Cleanup activities at the site have included building demolition and removal of contaminated soil.
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 ...
The U.S. Department of Defense plans to install two more groundwater treatment systems at a former Michigan military base to control contamination from so-called forever chemicals, U.S. Rep ...
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.
Williams Air Force Base. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Wurtsmith Air Force Base. Categories: Superfund sites. Formerly Used Defense Sites. Military installations of the United States in the United States. Hidden categories: Template Category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with 101–200 pages.
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 ...
Oscoda Army Airfield, 1943. Wurtsmith Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force base in Iosco County, Michigan. Near Lake Huron, it operated for seventy years, from 1923 until decommissioned in 1993. On January 18, 1994, Wurtsmith was listed as a Superfund site, due to extensive groundwater contamination with heavy metals ...
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 ...