Many residents are aware that activities at the former Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) in Warminster created significant groundwater contamination on their property. Since the Base closure decades ago, the contamination has been migrating from NAWC property into surrounding communities including Northampton Township. While the Navy has undertaken a fairly large project to identify private residential wells affected by the contamination, and has committed to remediation efforts for some residents, we believe that the Navy has not gone far enough in its efforts to address well contamination problems in the Township.
The goal of the Northampton Board of Supervisors, and the Northampton Bucks County Municipal Authority (NBCMA), is to ensure all our residents have safe drinking water, and we are confident that our NBCMA is, in fact, providing safe drinking water to the thousands of Northampton residents and businesses who are customers of the NBCMA. For our residents who maintain their own private wells, we will continue in our efforts to assure that the U.S. Navy fulfills its obligations to you to address and resolve any and all issues created by the groundwater contamination caused by the Navy’s prior activities at NAWC.
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Testing Your Well
This is list of Accredited Drinking Water Laboratories recognized by the Navy if you wish to test your well. If you do, please consider forwarding your results to wells@nhtwp.org and jonathan.i.harris5.civ@us.navy.mil. This information will help the Township convince the Navy to expand its testing area and remediation efforts.
Township Correspondence
Contacts
Contact the following individuals with questions regarding your property:
Jonathan Harris
BRAC Environmental Coordinator, NAVFAC BRAAC Prgm Mgmt Office
4911 South Broad Street, Building 679, Philadelphia, PA 19112
jonathan.i.harris5.civ@us.navy.mil, Phone: (215) 897-4900
Colin Wade
PA Department of Environmental Protection
2 East Main Street, Norristown, PA 19401
cowade@pa.gov, Phone: (484) 250-5722