Experts: Test for these toxins regularly if your drinking water comes from a well Ismail Turay Jr.
Most water from the region’s large underground aquifer is safe to drink untreated, but homeowners might not always be aware of all the potential contaminants, including “forever chemicals” that do not have a color, taste or smell.
Such was the case recently in Butler Twp., Montgomery County, when Earl Moyer and some of his neighbors said they learned about the chemicals known as PFAS for the first time after high levels were detected at nearby Aullwood Audubon Farm Discovery Center in October. Health officials sent letters to 180 homeowners nearby, urging them to test their wells for PFAS.
New York State Team
To see the effect of the coronavirus pandemic unfold on New Yorkers in real time, look no further than the Empire State s housing trends.
On one hand, a push for increased social distancing and record-low mortgage rates moved affluent people in New York City and throughout the Northeast to shop for first and second homes in less dense, more remote areas of New York.
But as buyers flooded the market, state-mandated restrictions that began in March weakened New York’s economy, particularly its service industries, resulting in mass layoffs as the COVID-19 pandemic raged on. And those service-industry workers, who are largely renters, were left to languish out of work and without the means to relocate.
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Housing activists and landlords don’t agree on much – but they both say renters need more relief, even after the passage of a new moratorium on evictions.
The landmark legislation signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is considered one of the strongest tenant protections in the country, but it still leaves renters on the hook for hundreds or thousands in back rent, and small landlords short on income and money for keeping up their properties. So with a new session right around the corner and emergency provisions to keep renters in their homes for several more months at least, the next question for lawmakers is what rental relief might look like.