El Centro Naval Air Facility
Naval Air Facility El Centro is located six miles northwest of El Centro, in Imperial County. El Centro is under the jurisdiction of Navy Region Southwest and serves both as temporary home port to military units conducting air-to-air and bombing training, and as the winter training home of the Blue Angels.
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See below for thousands of pages documenting contamination at El Centro dating back to 1991. Many of the most sensitive records are not available without filing a lengthy and costly Freedom of Information Act Request, (FOIA). El Centro Naval Air Facility |
El Centro California Naval Air Facility is identified as a DOD installation with known or suspected releases of PFOS/PFOA, according to a DOD Report to Congress on Aqueous Film-Forming Foam - Nov. 3, 2017. No testing results were made public regarding the base, only that it is likely contaminated with the ”forever chemicals.”
Aqueous Film Forming Foam to Congress, October, 2017
El Centro - Source - DOD
Unexploded Munitions and Ordnance Area
Groundwater at El Centro
Beryllium and compounds 2500.0 ppb
Cadmium and compounds 2700.0 ppb
Methylene chloride 6000.0 ppb
Lead 15000.0 ppb
Silver and compounds 16,300.0 ppb
Copper and compounds 67200.0 ppb
Selenium 88000.0 ppb
Zinc 122,000.0 ppb
Soil
Chromium VI and compounds 668.0 ppb
Lead 110,000.0 ppb
Dibenz[ah]anthracene 130.0 ppb
Benzo(a)Pyrene 260.0 ppb
Lead 87500.0 ppb
Arsenic 366.0 ppb
Tin 530.0 ppb
Chrysene 970.0 ppb
Dibenz[ah]anthracene 1100.0 ppb
Benz(a)Anthracene 2800.0 ppb
Benzo(a)Pyrene 70600.0 ppb
Benzene 5.0 ppb
Unexploded Munitions and Ordnance Area
Groundwater at El Centro
Beryllium and compounds 2500.0 ppb
Cadmium and compounds 2700.0 ppb
Methylene chloride 6000.0 ppb
Lead 15000.0 ppb
Silver and compounds 16,300.0 ppb
Copper and compounds 67200.0 ppb
Selenium 88000.0 ppb
Zinc 122,000.0 ppb
Soil
Chromium VI and compounds 668.0 ppb
Lead 110,000.0 ppb
Dibenz[ah]anthracene 130.0 ppb
Benzo(a)Pyrene 260.0 ppb
Lead 87500.0 ppb
Arsenic 366.0 ppb
Tin 530.0 ppb
Chrysene 970.0 ppb
Dibenz[ah]anthracene 1100.0 ppb
Benz(a)Anthracene 2800.0 ppb
Benzo(a)Pyrene 70600.0 ppb
Benzene 5.0 ppb
El Centro, California Serves: 42,595 Data available: 2012—2017
https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=CA1310004
Source: Purchased surface water Contaminants Detected 8 EXCEED EWG HEALTH GUIDELINES
19 Total Contaminants
EWG's drinking water quality report shows results of tests conducted by the water utility and provided to the Environmental Working Group by the California State Water Resources Control Board, as well as information from the U.S. EPA Enforcement and Compliance History database (ECHO). For the latest quarter assessed by the U.S. EPA (January 2019 - March 2019), tap water provided by this water utility was in compliance with federal health-based drinking water standards.
Legal does not necessarily equal safe. Getting a passing grade from the federal government does not mean the water meets the latest health guidelines.
Legal limits for contaminants in tap water have not been updated in almost 20 years.
The best way to ensure clean tap water is to keep pollution out of source water in the first place.
https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=CA1310004
Source: Purchased surface water Contaminants Detected 8 EXCEED EWG HEALTH GUIDELINES
19 Total Contaminants
EWG's drinking water quality report shows results of tests conducted by the water utility and provided to the Environmental Working Group by the California State Water Resources Control Board, as well as information from the U.S. EPA Enforcement and Compliance History database (ECHO). For the latest quarter assessed by the U.S. EPA (January 2019 - March 2019), tap water provided by this water utility was in compliance with federal health-based drinking water standards.
Legal does not necessarily equal safe. Getting a passing grade from the federal government does not mean the water meets the latest health guidelines.
Legal limits for contaminants in tap water have not been updated in almost 20 years.
The best way to ensure clean tap water is to keep pollution out of source water in the first place.
The California Water Board did not test El Centro's waterr for PFOS/PFOA in 2019.
DoD's Installation Restoration Program (IRP) Sites that have not Achieved Response Complete (RC) January 2018
https://www.denix.osd.mil/derp/home/documents/installation-restoration-program-report-to-congress-january-2018/
Key: DERA - Defense Environmental Restoration Account funds
BRAC - Base Realignment and Closure
Navy California EL CENTRO NAF DERA SITE 00002 EL CENTRO NAF
Navy California EL CENTRO NAF DERA SITE 00018 EL CENTRO NAF
Navy California EL CENTRO NAF DERA UST 000003 EL CENTRO NAF
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