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Following initial discoveries of groundwater contamination in 2002, the Minnesota Department of Health conducted numerous studies –concluding in 2008, 2010, and 2014 – on the level of PFAs found in the bloodstreams of exposed residents. On February 20, 2018, the state of Minnesota settled its lawsuit against 3M in exchange for $850 million.
The U.S. Department of Defense's research programs have been trying to define nature and extent of PFAS contamination at U.S. military sites, especially in groundwater. A 2018 report to Congress indicated that "at least 126 drinking water systems on or near military bases" were contaminated with PFAS compounds.
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.
Minnesota's battle with PFAS "forever chemicals" began years ago with leaking landfills in the eastern Twin Cities. Nearly 20 years later, landfills are again center stage with pollution ...
Fire-retardant foam, which contained PFAS compounds for decades, often found use at military bases and airstrips, causing costly pollution to nearby water sources. The U.S. Department of Defense ...
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 ...
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 ...
A water system that delivers 3.6 million gallons of water a day to about 35,500 people in Machesney Park and Roscoe, North Park Water District is in phase one of a $58.7 million plan to eliminate ...