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This was brought up on another site. I had no idea this was an issue and what some companies are trying to do about it with their products. Interesting article regarding it.
SF

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Inside the Race to Get PFAS Chemicals Out of Raincoats

Many commercially available raincoats contain PFAS—"forever chemicals." Manufacturers are working to develop new, PFAS-free materials.
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Stonedfish said:
This was brought up on another site. I had no idea this was an issue and what some companies are trying to do about it with their products. Interesting article regarding it.
SF

time.com

Inside the Race to Get PFAS Chemicals Out of Raincoats

Many commercially available raincoats contain PFAS—"forever chemicals." Manufacturers are working to develop new, PFAS-free materials.
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PFAS is no joke. I consumed extremely high levels PFAS chemicals in drinking water at Patrick AFB in the 1970's and at other Air Force installations during my Active-Duty time with the USAF. The source was fire fighting foam used to for aircraft fires the foam was allowed to leach into the ground and infiltrate the water supply. The end result is Parkinson's Disease. PFAS chemicals are present in almost all waterproof clothing, cooking pans and many others.
 
Thanks for your service.
I had no idea about PFAS, had never heard of it.
 
Jim Allen said:
PFAS is no joke. I consumed extremely high levels PFAS chemicals in drinking water at Patrick AFB in the 1970's and at other Air Force installations during my Active-Duty time with the USAF. The source was fire fighting foam used to for aircraft fires the foam was allowed to leach into the ground and infiltrate the water supply. The end result is Parkinson's Disease. PFAS chemicals are present in almost all waterproof clothing, cooking pans and many others.
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Jim,
Sorry to hear that and as Fred said, thank you for your service.
SF
 
Thanks for the heads up S/F. I’d known for a long time about the issues at current and former AFB around the country. The airport formerly known as Pease AFB in Newington NH was a former SAC base utilized for years. The ground water in the surrounding area is quite contaminated with forever chemicals. Lived nearby for quite some time. Good Luck @Jim Allen going forward.

In trying to see if my ocean outer wear fave Grundens (no luck) was involved I stumbled on the from 2021>

Outerwear to Shield You From Rain—and Forever Chemicals

How to buy PFAS-free rain gear
www.sierraclub.org www.sierraclub.org
 
The former George AFB in Victorville, CA is actually a Superfund site because of all the stuff that wound up in the water supply, including solvents, fuels, radioactive waste, and PFAS.

I wonder how much of that stuff I ingested as a kid.
 
Jim Allen said:
PFAS is no joke. I consumed extremely high levels PFAS chemicals in drinking water at Patrick AFB in the 1970's and at other Air Force installations during my Active-Duty time with the USAF. The source was fire fighting foam used to for aircraft fires the foam was allowed to leach into the ground and infiltrate the water supply. The end result is Parkinson's Disease. PFAS chemicals are present in almost all waterproof clothing, cooking pans and many others.
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Another issue around AFB's (I was in) was the historic use of TCE (trichloroethylene) as a cleaning solvent to power wash dirt off the wings and fuselage of aircraft, with the runoff permeating the ground. TCE is now a recognized carcinogenic causing kidney cancer and non-Hodgkins lymphoma
When I managed a 17 acre high tech campus buildout in Mountain Vew Ca in 2001, we were obligated to test soil down to 30' as a CAL-OSHA requirement since the site had formerly been a Siemens chip manufacturing campus that also used TCE in the manufacturing process.
Testing revealed a massive plume of TCE migrating west from Moffett AFB just 7 miles away, which had entered the watertable over the decades and was being propelled by SF bay tidal pressures which lapped the base.
We ended up mitigating the issue by ground sealing all of the building plots so that TCE evporaton wold not enter the buildings, and hardscaped everything else on the acreage into parking.
That plume? Continues to move west to this day, saturating the ground under neighborhoods where the average home price is 2M+. Homes on plots that have TCE continually evaporating up from the soil.
 
This whole PFAS issue really is staggering, especially how widespread the contamination is, from outerwear to AFBs and even neighborhoods sitting on toxic plumes.

For anyone who’s been exposed and is wondering what’s happening on the legal side of things, there’s a breakdown of current lawsuits and compensation info on this page. Might be useful for folks affected by contaminated water supplies or long-term health issues linked to PFAS.
 
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Fairchild here in Spokane has been implicated in at least part of the PFAS problem on the West Plains. This after numerous solvent/fuel/and other issues were largely addressed under CERCLA. I don’t know about Grant Co. airport and former Larson Air Base issues, though they chased solvents for some time out there, along with a remarkable suite of ag chemicals and nutrients.
 
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