Olivia Herken
La Crosse Tribune
Rep. Ron Kind, D-La Crosse, joined three other Democrats and one Republican lawmaker to reintroduce a bill Wednesday that aims to make testing for PFAS in drinking water more accessible.
The Test Your Well Water Act would specifically connect residents with resources to test their private wells for PFAS and other contaminants and access results in an easy-to-understand way.
Kind, who is a member of the Congressional PFAS Task Force, introduced the bill with Reps. Dan Kildee, D-MI, Mike Gallagher, R-WI, Antonio Delgado, D-NY, and Elissa Slotkin, D-MI.
The bill has the potential to directly help the community of La Crosse, where PFAS, a group of toxic âforever chemicals,â has been detected in hundreds of private and public wells on nearby French Island, where Kind himself lives.