Fairfield residents worry about the long-term impact of PFAS on their health and properties Author: Vivien Leigh (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 10:29 AM PDT May 3, 2021 Updated: 12:19 PM PDT May 6, 2021
FAIRFIELD, Maine
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The Somerset County town of Fairfield remains at the center of the largest state investigation into so-called forever chemicals.
PFAS compounds are a class of industrial chemicals found in a number of household products. But they don t naturally break down and there s no known way to destroy them.
Tests of private wells show alarming levels of the compounds, linked in federal studies to cancer, low birth weight, and other serious health problems.
Fairfield residents worry about the long term impact of PFAS on their health and properties Author: Vivien Leigh (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 1:29 PM EDT May 3, 2021 Updated: 1:29 PM EDT May 3, 2021
FAIRFIELD, Maine
Catch Vivien Leigh s full story Thursday at 6 p.m. on NEWS CENTER Maine.
The Somerset County town of Fairfield remains at the center of the largest state investigation into so-called forever chemicals.
PFAS compounds are a class of industrial chemicals found in a number of household products. But they don t naturally break down and there s no known way to destroy them.
Tests of private wells show alarming levels of the compounds, linked in federal studies to cancer, low birth weight, and other serious health problems.
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Maine homeowners seek more time to sue over chemical contamination Everything has been taken away, and there’s nothing that we did, said one Fairfield homeowner whose land and water are contaminated by the forever chemicals known as PFAS.
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Catherine Harrington stands in her yard on Howe Road in Fairfield in January, near fields where sludge was kept and spread for years.
Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
Thirty years ago, Bruce Harrington was so concerned about the sludge being spread as fertilizer on a farm near his family’s Fairfield home that he confronted the drivers of the trucks literally “drooling” with the foul-smelling waste.
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The 2021 Executive Board from left includes Sue Damm, secretary; Ken McDavitt, member at large; Joanne Dunlap, president; Margie Jamison, vice president; and Linda Dexter, treasurer. Contributed photo
The Rangeley Lakes Chamber of Commerce held its annual meeting Jan. 27. The meeting was conducted via Zoom because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the meeting Margery Jamison announced the annual election results. Joanne Dunlap, who served on the executive board as president in 2020, was reelected to another one-year term as chamber president, according to a news release from the chamber.