Washington State Finds No Significant Harm From AFFF Disposal Options

Washington state has finalized a novel environmental impact study that finds that none of the five evaluated disposal options for aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) would have significant adverse impacts on communities or natural resources and three of the five would also not adversely affect Native American tribal areas or treaty rights. The five options that Washington’s Department of Ecology assessed in its final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) , released Oct. 15, are holding AFFF in place until advanced treatment...