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“MARINE CORPS AIR STATION FUTENMA, Okinawa — Okinawa added four more checkpoints outside this U.S. base in its hunt for the source of PFAS in nearby wells, the prefecture announced in a meeting Wednesday.
The prefecture began digging the checkpoints last week between MCAS Futenma and wells registering high levels of PFAS contamination, a spokesman for the prefecture’s Environmental Protection Division said by phone Thursday. The prefecture announced the additional checkpoints at a meeting of PFAS experts on Wednesday in Naha.
The checkpoints — part of a three-year project to find the source of PFAS contamination in the affected wells — may be finished in August or September, the spokesman said. Eight checkpoints — four per year — were dug in 2022 and 2023, he added.”…