CBS 13 • September 14, 2024
Forever chemicals have now been found in the Androscoggin River. A nonprofit group took water samples after a massive spill of toxic firefighting foam last month at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. Now, the results are in. “The contamination from the outfall pipe was very high, the highest we’ve ever seen it,” Friends of Merrymeeting Bay Chair Ed Friedman said. Test results show the total concentration of all the PFAS in the sample was 16,000 parts per trillion. “The highest we’ve ever gotten from the outfall pipe before has been two or three hundred parts per trillion,” Friedman said. Brunswick Sewer District General Manager Robert Pontau said, “We need to stop using these products. Get it out of the system all together.”