Recent tests of Waterloo drinking water revealed one of the city’s wells has detectable amounts of PFAS, a toxic group of chemicals that are newly regulated by federal officials. The city decided to stop drawing water from that well — even though its contamination is within the new limits — because its other wells have […] The post Waterloo idles drinking water well contaminated by ‘forever chemicals’ appeared first on Iowa Capital Dispatch.
The recent report showed that some of the endangered Victorian dolphins showed to have high PFAS chemical concentrations in Melbourn and Giippsland. Read here.
The Department of Defense is investigating six sites in Minnesota for contamination from PFAS chemicals — and the toxic contaminants have been found in drinking water wells near military installations in Duluth and Little Falls. PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a class of thousands of industrial chemicals that don't break down in the environment and can build up in .