DOD’s New Priority Focus On Private Wells May Slow Other PFAS Cleanups

The Defense Department’s (DOD) new focus on prioritizing interim PFAS cleanups at affected private drinking water wells may delay other PFAS cleanups planned for potentially hundreds of military sites, according to a top DOD cleanup official. “We're going to just have to see, because we may prioritize addressing the private drinking water wells, and you may need to delay starting some” remedial investigations (RIs) at various DOD sites where the military believes there may be contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl...