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Little Creek is, as the name implies, a creek. But it is much more than that. It also is two bodies of salt water filled with crabs, fish, boats and sailing craft that meander through parts of Norfolk and Virginia Beach. It's a road that links Norfolk's east and west sides. It's an amphibious base in Virginia Beach. It's an elementary school in Norfolk.
Nine military bases near the Chesapeake Bay are contaminated with "forever chemicals" from firefighting foams used by the Defense Department, an environmental advocacy group warned this week.
The Environmental Working Group said the biggest risk is that the chemicals might have flowed out of the groundwater at military sites in Maryland and Virginia and into the bay.