CBS 13 • October 27, 2022
A comprehensive report released by Friends of Merrymeeting Bay provides direct, first-time evidence of PFAS leakage from the former Brunswick Naval Air Station reaching the watershed. Ed Friedman and others sampled 30 sites on the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers and several creeks that lead to Merrymeeting Bay. He said the testing found 19 different PFAS in the water. The highest levels of PFAS were found in three creeks that drain from the Brunswick Naval Air Station into the Androscoggin River and where the Brunswick Sewer District releases treated water.