All the Facilities at the Kennedy Space Center with PFAS Chemicals:
Fire Training Facilities:
• Flight Crew Rescue Training Area
• Fire Station #2
• Former Fire Station #2
• Fire Station #3
• Hydrocarbon Burn Facility (fire training facility)
Sewage Treatment Plants and Sludge Disposal Areas:
• Sewage Treatment Plant #1 and Sludge Disposal Area
• Sewage Treatment Plant #2 and Effluent Disposal Area
• Former Sewage Treatment Plant #3 and Percolation Pond
• Sewage Treatment Plant #4 and Sludge Disposal Area
• Former Sewage Treatment Plant #5 and Percolation Pond
• Former Sewage Treatment Plant #7
• Former Sewage Treatment Plant #8 and Drainfield Area
• Former Sewage Treatment Plant #9 and Abandoned Treatment Pond
• Former Sewage Treatment Plant #10 and Effluent Disposal Area
• Former Sewage Treatment Plant #11 and Percolation Pond
• Former Sewage Treatment Plant #12 and Percolation Pond
• Former Sewage Treatment Plant #13 and Effluent Disposal Pond
• Former Sewage Treatment Plant #14 and Abandoned Treatment Pond
• Sewage Treatment Plant #15 and Polishing Pond
• Former Sewage Treatment Plant #16 and Abandoned Treatment Pond
• Former Sewage Treatment Plant #18
From the early 1960s through 1986, various areas of KSC utilized the disposal of domestic waste sludge. Conventional sewage treatment practices do not effectively remove PFAS. Effluent disposal into surface water bodies and land application of sludge.
Other Facilities:
• Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) Runway
• Remote Launch Vehicle (RLV) Hanger
Schwartz Road Landfills
Ransom Road Landfill
• Central Instrumentation Facility Former • Residuals Application Area
• Operations and Checkout Former Residuals Application Area
• Kennedy Athletic, Recreation, and Social (KARS) Park II
• Random Road Sandblast Yard (M6-1625)
• Base Support Building (M6-0486)
Leachate from solid waste landfills is a source of PFAS in the environment.
They did groundwater, monitoring well, surface water, and spigot sampling.
PFOA & PFOS was found at upwards of 484,900 ppt combined. The Kennedy Space Center has been working with "Battelle PFAS Annihilator" for the past four years and testing. Recently PFOA and PFOS were designated as hazardous CERCLA, where polluters will be accountable and financially responsible for the cost of cleanup of contaminated sites.
