A 'forever chemical' contaminates drinking water near military bases

By Hannah Rappleye, David Douglas & Anne Thompson | NBC News | December 16, 2019

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"WARMINSTER, Pa. — Hope Grosse and Joanne Stanton have fond memories of the childhood they shared in the Philadelphia suburbs. They spent their days outside playing football, riding bikes and — when the Blue Angels came to town — they watched the skies.

For kids in Horsham and Warminster townships, that was just one of the perks of growing up near two active military bases. Grosse, who lived across the street from the Naval Air Warfare Center in Warminster, remembers watching, with rapt attention, as Navy personnel torched airplanes during weekly fire drills and doused the flames with a white, bubbly foam...

"We would run up the street as the sirens went off and sit with our fingers in the fence," Grosse, 55, said. "It was fun. I don’t think we were worried about anything."..."