PFAS

After years of historic use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base officials shared insights into the systems they now use on site to remove PFAS from water.

With more recent regulatory scrutiny to PFAS chemicals, the Dayton region’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is trying to mitigate community exposure from its historic use of these compounds.

One of Dayton’s two well fields, the Ottawa Well Field, has levels of PFAS above new EPA limits. It's the subject of a lawsuit the city filed against the base and the Pentagon in 2021.

PFAS, also called "forever chemicals," are under increasing regulatory scrutiny for its links to health effects.Dayton’s laboratory is capable of detecting PFAS levels as low as 2 parts per trillion in a sample.

The PFAS annihilator is the only proven technology to completely destroy PFAS in aqueous film forming foam (or AFFF).

There's a new Ohio program for fire departments to dispose of Aqueous film forming foam (AFFF), to protect local water supplies and the environment from PFAS "forever chemicals."

Dayton, Ohio, runs two waterworks. One of them, the Ottawa plant, has levels of PFAS above the upcoming U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drinking water standards.

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Some groundwater on Wright Patterson Air Force Base is contaminated with PFAS, or forever chemicals. Those chemicals have been linked to cancer and developmental problems. Engineers recently built something called an interceptor trench to capture that groundwater so they can clean it up.

The City of Bellbrook has joined Dayton and Fairborn in a lawsuit against more than 30 companies that manufactured PFAS, or so-called forever chemicals. Bellbrook said those companies should pay to clean up the PFAS in the city's drinking water wells.

PFAS were discovered in more than a dozen public water systems in the Miami Valley during recent testing by the Ohio EPA. The chemicals have been linked to cancer and developmental problems in infants and children.

A local engineering firm has received a new grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency. It’s intended to help them develop new technology that will…