Read the full article by Stephanie Zappelli (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
“The San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport has won a large, federal grant to help clean up pollution from toxic firefighting foam.
For decades, aqueous film-forming foam sprayed from firetrucks at the airport leaked into the groundwater and contaminated 42 nearby residential wells with PFAS — toxic, so-called ‘forever chemicals’ that can cause cancer, liver damage and pregnancy complications, according to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease.
Airports nationwide are trying to clean up that pollution. The Federal Aviation Administration gave the airport $3.5 million to test three new PFAS remediation technologies for soil and water contaminated by the chemicals, according to an airport news release on Tuesday.”…