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

PFAS 的来源、传输、暴露和影响 (STEEP)

• 批准号: 9258541
• 负责人: Alyson McCann
• 金额: $ 11.04万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9258541
• 关键词: Academy; Address; Advisory Committees; Air; Area; Awareness; Back; Behavior; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Cods; Communities; County; Decision Making; Development; Educational Materials; Environmental Health; Event; Exposure to; Federal Government; Film; Fingerprint; Fire - disasters; Fostering; Goals; Government Agencies; Guidelines; Gynecologist; Health; Home environment; Human; Industrialization; Institutes; Joints; Knowledge; Leadership; Local Government; Massachusetts; Military Personnel; Municipalities; New England; Nonprofit Organizations; Participant; Pathway interactions; Perinatal Exposure; Poison; Preventive Intervention; Privatization; Process; Production; Public Health; Public Policy; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Risk; Science; Signal Recognition Particle; Sister; Source; State Government; Superfund; Surface; System; Testing; Time; Training; Translational Research; United States; United States Environmental Protection Agency; Update; Vision; Water; Work; aqueous; base; chemical fingerprinting; community center; community organizations; contaminated water; digital; disease registry; drinking water; early life exposure; experience; exposed human population; field trip; improved; innovation; landfill; member; operation; prenatal exposure; programs; public drinking; response; septic; superfund chemical; superfund site; tool; water testing; water treatment

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.

核心摘要/摘要 PFASs的来源、运输、暴露和影响（STEEP）中心社区的目标 参与核心（CEC）是促进以社区为中心的参与性过程，以保护人类健康 并为公共政策提供信息CEC将作为STEEP中心成员和居民之间的联络人 和利益相关者在科德角，马萨诸塞州，新英格兰，并在整个美国：直接 社区参与最佳做法，以加强对全氟烷基和多氟烷基 促进和实施预防和干预战略， PFAS;保护人类和生态健康;并为公共政策提供信息。CEC旨在响应 通过提供科学专门知识来回应社区的问题和关注，满足社区的需求。的 CEC将与利益相关者合作，包括居民，联邦，州和地方卫生和环境 机构，政府官员，非政府组织和“姐妹”超级基金计划在美国。 环境保护署（EPA）和有毒物质和疾病登记署（ATSDR）： 促进利益攸关方和研究人员之间的双向知识交流; 了解PFAS;促进和实施预防和干预战略， PFASs，保护人类健康。 CEC的目标社区位于马萨诸塞州科德角，那里有多个污染源 PFAS（消防训练区、机场、军事基地、垃圾填埋场、城市废水和化粪池系统）威胁着 唯一的水源含水层，为20万常年居民和50万夏季居民提供饮用水。 例如，科德角联合基地（JBCC）是奥蒂斯空军国民警卫队基地的所在地， PFAS的超级基金网站。水成膜泡沫（AFFF）中的PFAS已迁移到地下水中 JBCC附近和巴恩斯特布尔县消防培训学院（BCFTA）附近;公共饮用水威尔斯井附近 BCFTA正在接受治疗，以消除PFAS。寂静的春天研究所先前的研究表明， 在整个科德角的私人饮用水威尔斯井中存在PFAS。 CEC将与每个研究项目，研究翻译核心（RTC）和培训合作 核心（TC），以促进STEEP成员和社区成员之间的知识交流， 持份者CEC将成立一个科德角咨询委员会（CCAC），并举办一年一度的春季科学 科德角日为STEEP研究人员和学员提供分享新研究成果的机会 以及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将向科德角居民提供PFAS的私人井水测试，重点是 接近可能的来源，参与者将收到他们自己的良好结果的背景丰富的数字报告。 来自已知水源附近的威尔斯井的结果也将为项目1的饮用水中PFAS特征的指纹图谱提供信息 水CEC将与全州和国家非政府组织和机构合作，分享STEEP中心的研究成果。 研究结果，并促进有效的战略，以减少从饮用水和其他来源的PFAS暴露。