PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 17, 2025
Unsafe levels of chemicals have been found in the well water of a golf course about a mile and a half southwest of the Brunswick Executive Airport, the location of Maine’s largest documented spill of firefighting foam laced with toxic forever chemicals. The state thinks this contamination may be a result of the Navy’s past activities, not the spill. Brunswick wants the Navy to sample the monitoring well at the former Harpswell Road quarry and other monitoring wells on the western border of the former naval air station. Even trace amounts of some PFAS are considered a public health risk. While manufacturers can no longer use two variants of the chemicals, large amounts of “legacy” PFAS-containing foam are still out there.