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“In the wake of the worst toxic firefighting foam spill in Maine’s history, a renters organization is working to better inform the public and widely test for toxic forever chemicals in Brunswick Landing.
The Brunswick Renters Organization is compiling requests for a bulk order of home test kits for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — better known as PFAS or ‘forever chemicals.’ The aim, it said, is to create a database of contamination levels around the former Brunswick Naval Air Station while raising awareness about the long-running history of military contamination.
On Aug. 19, a fire suppression system at Brunswick Executive Airport’s Hangar 4, a property owned by the Navy and leased by the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, malfunctioned and spilled 1,450 gallons of firefighting foam concentrate mixed with 50,000 gallons of water. The concentrate — an aqueous film-forming foam known as AFFF — contained a particularly harmful PFAS substance known as PFOS.”…