Crow's Naval
Auxiliary Landing Field
NASA Crows Landing Airport is a private use airport that is owned by the NASA Ames Research Center, 1.2 mi northwest of the central business district of Crows Landing, in Stanislaus County, California. The airfield was formerly named Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Crows Landing or NALF Crows Landing when operated by the U.S. Navy.[3] As of January 2011 Airport-data.com reports this airport status as Closed Permanently.
It began in late 1942 as an auxiliary air station to Naval Air Station, Alameda, and was used to train Navy fighter pilots. Pilots of F4F Wildcats, TBF and TBM Avengers trained here first in Link and Panoramic trainers then eventually in actual planes. Later, pilots in R4D Skytrains and R5D Skymasters (Navy versions of the Army's C-47 and C-54) trained here. After the war the station was placed in caretaker status.
Crows Naval is identified as a DOD installation with known or suspected releases of PFOS/PFOA, according to a DOD Report to Congress on Aqueous Film-Forming Foam - Nov. 3, 2017.
No testing results were made public regarding the base, only that it is likely contaminated with the ”forever chemicals.”
Crows Landing is a Superfund site for Stanislaus County. Environmental studies identified 21 CERCLA sites and 11 Underground Storage Tank (UST) sites for Moffett Field Naval Air Station, which includes Crows Landing. Such sites identified include, landfills, USTs, a burn pit, ditches, holding ponds, French drains, maintenance areas, and spill sites. Primary contaminants include VOCs, heavy metals, and petroleum/oil/lubricants (POL); these contaminants have been released to groundwater and soil.
ows Landing - Source - DOD
1 Active Site
Groundwater Contaminants:
Toluene 200.0 ppb Xylene (mixed) 600.0 ppb
Lead 900.0 ppb
Arsenic (cancer) 1700.0 ppb
Beryllium and compounds 2200.0 ppb
Selenium 3200.0 ppb
Chloroform 5000.0 ppb
Antimony and compounds 5300.0 ppb
Iron 25400.0 ppb Barium and compounds 36700.0 ppb
Carbon tetrachloride 50000.0 ppb
Toluene 200.0 ppb
Xylene (mixed) 600.0 ppb
Barium and compounds 36700.0 ppb
1 Active Site
Groundwater Contaminants:
Toluene 200.0 ppb Xylene (mixed) 600.0 ppb
Lead 900.0 ppb
Arsenic (cancer) 1700.0 ppb
Beryllium and compounds 2200.0 ppb
Selenium 3200.0 ppb
Chloroform 5000.0 ppb
Antimony and compounds 5300.0 ppb
Iron 25400.0 ppb Barium and compounds 36700.0 ppb
Carbon tetrachloride 50000.0 ppb
Toluene 200.0 ppb
Xylene (mixed) 600.0 ppb
Barium and compounds 36700.0 ppb
City of Patterson Serves: 20,560 Data available: 2012—2017
https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=CA5010017
Source: Groundwater Contaminants Detected 9 EXCEED EWG HEALTH GUIDELINES
24 Total Contaminants
EWG's drinking water quality report shows results of tests conducted by the water utility and provided to the Environmental Working Group by the California State Water Resources Control Board, as well as information from the U.S. EPA Enforcement and Compliance History database (ECHO). For the latest quarter assessed by the U.S. EPA (January 2019 - March 2019), tap water provided by this water utility was in compliance with federal health-based drinking water standards.
Legal does not necessarily equal safe. Getting a passing grade from the federal government does not mean the water meets the latest health guidelines.
Legal limits for contaminants in tap water have not been updated in almost 20 years.
The best way to ensure clean tap water is to keep pollution out of source water in the first place.
https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=CA5010017
Source: Groundwater Contaminants Detected 9 EXCEED EWG HEALTH GUIDELINES
24 Total Contaminants
EWG's drinking water quality report shows results of tests conducted by the water utility and provided to the Environmental Working Group by the California State Water Resources Control Board, as well as information from the U.S. EPA Enforcement and Compliance History database (ECHO). For the latest quarter assessed by the U.S. EPA (January 2019 - March 2019), tap water provided by this water utility was in compliance with federal health-based drinking water standards.
Legal does not necessarily equal safe. Getting a passing grade from the federal government does not mean the water meets the latest health guidelines.
Legal limits for contaminants in tap water have not been updated in almost 20 years.
The best way to ensure clean tap water is to keep pollution out of source water in the first place.
The California Water Board did not test the water of the City of Patterson for PFOS/PFOA in 2019.
DoD's Installation Restoration Program (IRP) Sites that have not Achieved Response Complete (RC) January 2018
https://www.denix.osd.mil/derp/home/documents/installation-restoration-program-report-to-congress-january-2018/
Key: DERA - Defense Environmental Restoration Account funds
BRAC - Base Realignment and Closure
Navy California CROWS LANDING NALF BRAC SITE 00017 CROWS LANDING NALF 202406 3,377 8
Patterson Stomar Newman 95313 95363 95380