Item talk:Q227114

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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/new-jersey-water-science-center/science/investigations-and-technical-assistance-joint-base",
 "headline": "Investigations and Technical Assistance to the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, in Assessing the Distribution and Transport of Perfluorinated Compounds in Groundwater and Surface Water",
 "datePublished": "March 21, 2023",
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     "name": "Alex R Fiore",
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     "text": "The U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center is assessing the extent of PFAS contamination at JBMDL, including whether PFAS have migrated outside the boundaries of JBMDL and into public and private drinking water supplies."
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     "text": "In cooperation with AFCEC, the USGS New Jersey Water Science Center has developed a regional hydrostratigraphic framework of JBMDL and vicinity to better understand the hydrogeology of the Kirkwood-Cohansey and Vincentown aquifers that contain, or may contain, PFAS. A regional groundwater flow model was also developed to represent the groundwater flow system and to estimate PFAS transport from known source areas on JBMDL to potential receptors outside JBMDL boundaries, as well as to identify potential unknown source areas of known PFAS contamination areas."
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     "text": "PFAS has been detected in two lakes near JBMDL\u2014Little Pine Lake in Browns Mills, New Jersey and Pine Lake in Manchester Township, New Jersey. USGS performed a gain/loss reconnaissance  to determine the potential of PFAS to exit these lake surface waters and enter the unconfined aquifer system that supplies drinking water to neighboring communities."
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     "text": "The USGS New Jersey Water Science Center provides hydrologic technical assistance to the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JBMDL) in New Jersey, regarding contamination issues associated with perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), such as perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), in groundwater and surface water."
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     "text": "For more information on PFAS at JBMDL, please visit https://www.jbmdl.jb.mil/PFCs/"
   },
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     "text": "These PFAS studies build upon a history of USGS hydrogeologic and environmental studies at JBMDL in partnership with the Department of Defense."
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