State Water Board Announces Plan to Investigate PFAS

GlobeSt (April 2, 2019) The California State Water Resources Control Board has announced an phased plan to investigate potential PFAS contamination in more than 1,000 California facilities. The first phase of the investigation plan will target airports and landfills, while the second and third phases, expected to launch later this year, will focus on refineries, bulk terminals, fire training facilities, wildfire areas, manufacturers, wastewater plants, and domestic wells. “The United States Environmental Protection Agency periodically requires monitoring of unregulated contaminants under what are called the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rules,” Kamran Javandel, a partner at Allen Matkins, tells GlobeSt.com. The first phase will look at 31 airports and 252 landfills where the State of California believes that PFAS chemicals are present or that may have accepted materials containing PFAS.