Sources, Transport, Exposure and Effects of PFASs (STEEP)

核心摘要/摘要 加油站(陡峭)社区的来源、运输、暴露和影响的目标 参与核心(CEC)旨在促进以社区为中心的参与性进程，以保护人类健康 并为公共政策提供信息。CEC将作为陡峭中心成员和居民之间的联络人 以及马萨诸塞州科德角、新英格兰和整个美国的利益相关者： 社区参与最佳做法，以增进对全氟烷基和多氟烷基的广泛了解 促进和实施预防和干预战略，以减少接触 PFASs；保护人类和生态健康；并为公共政策提供信息。CEC的目标是对 通过提供科学专业知识来回应社区的问题和关切，以满足社区的需求。这个 CEC将与包括居民、联邦、州和地方卫生和环境在内的利益攸关方合作 机构、公职人员、非政府组织和美国的“姐妹”超级基金项目。 环境保护局(EPA)和有毒物质和疾病登记局(ATSDR)： 促进利益相关者和研究人员之间的双向知识交流；促进广泛的 了解全氟辛烷磺酸；促进和实施预防和干预战略，以减少 暴露于全氟辛烷磺酸并保护人类健康。 CEC的目标社区位于马萨诸塞州的科德角，那里有多种来源的 PFASs(消防训练区、机场、军事基地、垃圾填埋场、城市污水和化粪池系统)威胁 为20万常年居民和50万夏季居民提供饮用水的唯一水源含水层。 例如，科德角联合基地(JBCC)是奥的斯空军国民警卫队基地的所在地，该基地是14个指定基地之一 PASs的超级基金站点。水成膜泡沫(AFFF)中的PFASs已经迁移到地下水中 JBCC附近和巴恩斯特尔县消防培训学院(BCFTA)附近；附近的公共饮用水水井 BCFTA正在接受治疗，以消除全氟辛烷磺酸。寂静之春研究所之前的研究证明了 科德角的私人饮用水井中存在全氟辛烷磺酸。 CEC将与每个研究项目、研究翻译核心(RTC)和培训一起工作 核心(TC)，促进陡坡成员和社区成员之间的知识交流，以及 利益相关者。CEC将成立鳕鱼角咨询委员会(CCAC)，并主办一年一度的春季科学 科德角日为陡峭的研究人员和学员提供机会分享新的研究成果 让利益相关者和社区成员提出问题，并为研究和参与提供信息 活动。CEC将为科德角居民提供私人井水测试，主要集中在以下地区 接近可能的来源，参与者将收到他们自己的油井结果的背景丰富的数字报告。 来自接近已知来源的井的结果也将为项目1的S提供饮用水中全氟辛烷磺酸的指纹图谱 水。CEC将与全州和全国性的非政府组织和机构合作，分享陡峭中心的研究成果 并促进减少饮用水和其他来源的全氟辛烷磺酸暴露的有效战略。

CORE SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The goal of the Sources, Transport, Exposure, and Effects of PFASs (STEEP) Center’s Community Engagement Core (CEC) is to facilitate a community-centered, participatory process to protect human health and inform public policy. The CEC will serve as the liaison between STEEP Center members and residents and stakeholders on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in New England, and throughout the United States to: direct community engagement best practices to enhance a broad understanding of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs); promote and implement prevention and intervention strategies to reduce exposures to PFASs; protect human and ecological health; and inform public policy. The CEC aims to be responsive to the community’s needs by providing scientific expertise in response to community questions and concerns. The CEC will work with stakeholders, including residents, federal, state and local health and environmental agencies, public officials, non-governmental organizations, and “sister” Superfund programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to: facilitate bidirectional exchange of knowledge between stakeholders and researchers; enhance a broad understanding of PFASs; and promote and implement prevention and intervention strategies to reduce exposures to PFASs and protect human health. The CEC’s targeted communities are located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where multiple sources of PFASs (fire training areas, airports, military base, landfills, municipal wastewater, and septic systems) threaten the sole source aquifer that provides drinking water for 200,000 year-round and 500,000 summer residents. For instance, Joint Base Cape Cod (JBCC) is home to the Otis Air National Guard Base, one of 14 designated Superfund Sites for PFASs. PFASs from aqueous film forming foams (AFFFs) have migrated into groundwater near JBCC and near the Barnstable County Fire Training Academy (BCFTA); public drinking water wells near BCFTA are being treated to remove PFASs. Prior research by Silent Spring Institute demonstrated the presence of PFASs in private drinking water wells throughout Cape Cod. The CEC will work with each research project, the Research Translation Core (RTC), and Training Core (TC) to foster knowledge exchange between STEEP members and community members and stakeholders. The CEC will form a Cape Cod Advisory Committee (CCAC) and host an annual Spring Science Day on Cape Cod to provide opportunities for STEEP researchers and trainees to share new research findings and for stakeholders and community members to ask questions and inform research and engagement activities. The CEC will offer private well water testing for PFASs to Cape Cod residents, focused in areas near likely sources, and participants will receive context-rich, digital report-back of their own well results. Results from wells close to known sources will also inform Project 1’s fingerprinting of PFAS profiles in drinking water. The CEC will work with statewide and national NGOs and agencies to share STEEP Center research findings and promote effective strategies to reducing PFAS exposures from drinking water and other sources.