Children's Health Defense The U.S. Department of Defense, which acknowledged it has a big mess to clean up, has spent years trying to grasp the scale of the contamination and assess the costs U.S. taxpayers will shoulder to clean it all up.
By Hannah Norman and Patricia Kime
Oscoda, Michigan, has the distinction as the first community where “forever chemicals” were found seeping from a military installation into the surrounding community.
Beginning in 2010, state officials and later residents who lived near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base were horrified to learn that the chemicals, collectively called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), had leached into their rivers, lakes and drinking water.
Thirteen years later, the community is still waiting on whatever it will take to clean its water. As a result of dogged activism and pressure from government officials, the U.S. Air Force has finally taken initial steps simply to contain the chemicals.
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