Study finds high PFAS levels near Okinawa air base, raising contamination concerns

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1. Everyone knows it’s contaminated…no one cares

2. It’s from the fiirefighting foam

3. > “Typically, at least in the United States, the wastewater treatment plants only remove about 10% or so PFAS from the effluent that goes back into our water,” he said by phone Wednesday.

   …There is a Japanese wastewater treatment plant that dumps it’s treated water 1.5km south of kadena marina…

4. I heard that same problems is also happening in Hawaii as well

   If they don’t mind doing this to their own citizens I doubt they would do anything for these Japanese people complaining about it

5. Who knows a case of leukemia on the island ? I do. Never met anybody with leukemia anywhere else

6. [Agent Orange Okinawa](https://www.reddit.com/r/VeteransBenefits/s/17PvOEM6tY)

7. This isn’t new information

8. Yeah, this has been known for at least 7 years now. More testing is great. But it’s not leading to action.

   There is a case to do epidemiological testing on residents. The prefecture has the lowest birth weight I’m the country, PFAS has been known to cause such. Civic groups have done testing of their own and found dangerous levels of PFAS in some residents.

   SOFA and JEGS as it is means the US has little incentive to open the gates to allow further testing which is what the expert panel is suggesting. 

   PFAS is however getting a lot of media coverage nationwide, it might lead to the Japanese government actually growing a spine. PFAS contamination around Yokota and other bases closer to the capital might actually force some action.