Water sampling is being offered at no cost to Chesapeake residents located in a designated area west of St. Juliens Creek Annex. The sampling, which officials said will take place over the next few weeks, will look for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances that might be present in drinking wells as a result of the Navy and fire training academy's past use of firefighting foam on base.
Nicole Jones read the poster’s laundry list of health effects from drinking water contaminated by chemicals found in firefighting foam: high cholesterol, changes in liver enzymes, preeclampsia in pregnant women, low infant birth weight and cancer. “Are you reading all this?” she asked her husband. Jones and her husband read the poster Tuesday at a public meeting organized by the Navy to inform .
At a public meeting Tuesday, the Navy informed residents that decades ago, toxic “forever chemicals” had potentially contaminated groundwater at the St. Juliens Creek Annex in Chesapeake and trickled into nearby neighborhoods.
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