Not a big deal at Dover AFB. Just rinse it off. It'll go away.
On Sunday, March 21st - the day before World Water Day - we are offering a webinar to introduce people to our newly designed website—Military Poisons—which exposes the connections between water, food, and health to PFAS contamination caused by the military. (PFAS are per-and-poly fluoroalkyl substances). The website will be online on March 20th. The webinar will be one-hour: 5:00 PM, EDT.
Register in advance for this program at: https://bit.ly/MilitaryPoisons After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Seating is limited to 100 registrants.
The reformatted website is both a resource and a research tool for those who want to learn more about PFAS contamination and the military and take grassroots action. WILPF US member Pat Elder started the Military Poisons website in 2019 as part of Earth Democracy’s California PFAS tour. WILPF is the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
With a WILPF US grant and the technical expertise of Better World Creative, the website will be more accessible and easier to navigate. Besides demonstrating the new website and how to research confirmed and suspected military contamination sites in your state and region, we’ll introduce you to the newest PFAS and the Military Project that is starting in Vermont. You’ll hear about the Vermont Project and from those working on it, including Dr. Patricia Hynes, women’s and public health expert; Marguerite Adelman, WILPF Burlington Team Leader; Pat Elder, investigative journalist; Kyendamina Cleophace Mukeba, Community Outreach Coordinator; and James Ehlers, Vermont Project Coordinator and Environmental Advocate.
On Sunday, March 21st - the day before World Water Day - we are offering a webinar to introduce people to our newly designed website—Military Poisons—which exposes the connections between water, food, and health to PFAS contamination caused by the military. (PFAS are per-and-poly fluoroalkyl substances). The website will be online on March 20th. The webinar will be one-hour: 5:00 PM, EDT.
Register in advance for this program at: https://bit.ly/MilitaryPoisons After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Seating is limited to 100 registrants.
The reformatted website is both a resource and a research tool for those who want to learn more about PFAS contamination and the military and take grassroots action. WILPF US member Pat Elder started the Military Poisons website in 2019 as part of Earth Democracy’s California PFAS tour. WILPF is the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
With a WILPF US grant and the technical expertise of Better World Creative, the website will be more accessible and easier to navigate. Besides demonstrating the new website and how to research confirmed and suspected military contamination sites in your state and region, we’ll introduce you to the newest PFAS and the Military Project that is starting in Vermont. You’ll hear about the Vermont Project and from those working on it, including Dr. Patricia Hynes, women’s and public health expert; Marguerite Adelman, WILPF Burlington Team Leader; Pat Elder, investigative journalist; Kyendamina Cleophace Mukeba, Community Outreach Coordinator; and James Ehlers, Vermont Project Coordinator and Environmental Advocate.
PFAS Fish by Victor Pytko
Please help us pay for fish testing
We’re raising funds to test fish for PFAS - particularly in Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Maryland. While states across New England are taking steps to limit the presence of several types of PFAS in drinking water to 20 parts per trillion (ppt), fish may contain hundreds of thousands of parts per trillion of one type of PFAS known as PFOS (Per fluoro octane sulfonic acid) which travels long distances in water and wildly bioaccumulates in fish and other aquatic life. It is extraordinarily dangerous. Women who are pregnant or may become pregnant must be warned.
Fish caught near the burn pits of military bases have been found to contain nearly 10,000,000 ppt of mostly PFOS. A Brook Trout caught in a stream near Loring Air Force Base in Maine contained 1,080,000 ppt of PFOS. A few ounces of that fish contain more of the poisons than drinking water containing 20 ppt every day for 147 years. A Smallmouth Bass was caught in Maryland with 547,000 ppt. The states mentioned above are not testing fish for PFAS - or they’re not making the results public. Is human health being sacrificed for economic reasons?
There’s plenty of research showing the primary non-occupational route of exposure to PFAS is through the diet, namely, seafood from contaminated water bodies. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) estimates that “fish and other seafood” account for up to 86% of dietary PFAS exposure in adults."
We must raise money to test fish. Eurofins Environmental Testing charges about $300 a test. We’d like to test fish in several locations in each state. Here’s what we've decided:
MD - Aberdeen Proving Ground - Channel Creek/Gunpowder River.
Indian Head Naval Support Facility - Potomac River
VT - Winooski River downstream of the Vermont Air Nation Guard Base
Lake Memphremagog is threatened so we’ll test there.
NH - Piscataqua River downstream of Pease AFB
Bow Lake near the New Hampshire National Guard Training Site in Center Strafford
ME - Loring Air Force Base - Greenlaw Brook, Little Madawaska River
Portland International Airport, Fore River downstream of Clean Harbors Environmental.
MA - Joint Base Cape Cod - Ashumet Pond
Westover Air Reserve Base - Connecticut River downstream
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Please email me if you have a location you’d like to test. See if you can “bundle” $300 to get it done. Of course, we’d be happy if you sent $5. I will be working with activists throughout New England and in Maryland. I plan on taking two kayaks in my pick-up truck (along with fishing gear and licenses), and meeting with like-minded folks to catch the fish and collect the filet to ship it to the lab, adhering to incredibly stringent protocols. This is important work the EPA and most states are not doing. If you contribute, I’ll send regular reports on how your money was spent, and I’ll keep you updated on press coverage and official responses or silence. Contributions are tax deductible.
We must test the fish.
Please donate
Please help us pay for fish testing
We’re raising funds to test fish for PFAS - particularly in Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Maryland. While states across New England are taking steps to limit the presence of several types of PFAS in drinking water to 20 parts per trillion (ppt), fish may contain hundreds of thousands of parts per trillion of one type of PFAS known as PFOS (Per fluoro octane sulfonic acid) which travels long distances in water and wildly bioaccumulates in fish and other aquatic life. It is extraordinarily dangerous. Women who are pregnant or may become pregnant must be warned.
Fish caught near the burn pits of military bases have been found to contain nearly 10,000,000 ppt of mostly PFOS. A Brook Trout caught in a stream near Loring Air Force Base in Maine contained 1,080,000 ppt of PFOS. A few ounces of that fish contain more of the poisons than drinking water containing 20 ppt every day for 147 years. A Smallmouth Bass was caught in Maryland with 547,000 ppt. The states mentioned above are not testing fish for PFAS - or they’re not making the results public. Is human health being sacrificed for economic reasons?
There’s plenty of research showing the primary non-occupational route of exposure to PFAS is through the diet, namely, seafood from contaminated water bodies. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) estimates that “fish and other seafood” account for up to 86% of dietary PFAS exposure in adults."
We must raise money to test fish. Eurofins Environmental Testing charges about $300 a test. We’d like to test fish in several locations in each state. Here’s what we've decided:
MD - Aberdeen Proving Ground - Channel Creek/Gunpowder River.
Indian Head Naval Support Facility - Potomac River
VT - Winooski River downstream of the Vermont Air Nation Guard Base
Lake Memphremagog is threatened so we’ll test there.
NH - Piscataqua River downstream of Pease AFB
Bow Lake near the New Hampshire National Guard Training Site in Center Strafford
ME - Loring Air Force Base - Greenlaw Brook, Little Madawaska River
Portland International Airport, Fore River downstream of Clean Harbors Environmental.
MA - Joint Base Cape Cod - Ashumet Pond
Westover Air Reserve Base - Connecticut River downstream
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Please email me if you have a location you’d like to test. See if you can “bundle” $300 to get it done. Of course, we’d be happy if you sent $5. I will be working with activists throughout New England and in Maryland. I plan on taking two kayaks in my pick-up truck (along with fishing gear and licenses), and meeting with like-minded folks to catch the fish and collect the filet to ship it to the lab, adhering to incredibly stringent protocols. This is important work the EPA and most states are not doing. If you contribute, I’ll send regular reports on how your money was spent, and I’ll keep you updated on press coverage and official responses or silence. Contributions are tax deductible.
We must test the fish.
Please donate
