TIMES RECORD • February 3, 2023
January 24th’s edition of the Times Record carried a letter to the editor — The PFAS Brunswick Really Needs to Worry About — that caught my attention. Josh Katz, a hydrogeologist, wondered about the discrepancy between the recent intense public worry about potential PFAS run-off from the proposed Bowdoin College playing fields conversion to artificial turf, and the absence of attention paid to another potential source of PFAS in our ground and surface waters. The presence of PFAS at the old naval air station, now The Landing, dwarfs anything the turf fields might cause. The letter asks us as citizens to read and then ask our town and state representatives to go to work on this dark chemical specter. It is clearly on our town turf. ~ Sandy Stott