Many classrooms incorporate raising animals into their curriculum, but recently county schools have been raising an unconventional choice in their rooms: American Eels.
Valley Creek is just one waterway out of many across the U.S. with elevated PFAS levels caused by wastewater treatment plants and electronics manufacturing facilities.
The United States Geological Survey released a map, using data collecting in 2019. It shows the 161 sites across the state that were sampled for PFAS and 76% of the tested streams contained the chemicals, including the Susquehanna River.
Fertile sediment bottled up behind old mill dams in Pennsylvania is a relentless source of nutrient and sediment pollution in local waterways that flow toward the Chesapeake Bay. But it