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“Mostly in coffee,” she said with a laugh.
It’s a small but important sign that the Silent Spring Institute research scientist is confident in the work Barnstable town officials have done to cut the amount of dangerous chemicals within the municipal water supply.
But before town officials recognized the problem more than five years ago, people across Hyannis were drinking the contaminated water.
Now, Schaider and her colleagues at the institute, the first organization to find PFAS chemicals in Cape Cod drinking water, are trying to assess the scale of the effects the contaminated water might have had on humans health.
“Mostly in coffee,” she said with a laugh.
It’s a small but important sign that the Silent Spring Institute research scientist is confident in the work Barnstable town officials have done to cut the amount of dangerous chemicals within the municipal water supply.
But before town officials recognized the problem more than five years ago, people across Hyannis were drinking the contaminated water.
Now, Schaider and her colleagues at the institute, the first organization to find PFAS chemicals in Cape Cod drinking water, are trying to assess the scale of the effects the contaminated water might have had on humans health.
Lots of excited and happy fishermen and women came to the Pacifica Pier on Friday morning, as the span reopened for catching fish and gawking at the mighty Pacific Ocean.
The pier had been closed since mid-January due to damage from storms. Before reopening, Public Works crews cleaned the open section, placed signs to warn of ongoing hazards, and fenced off the section with the broken railing.
The section at the west end with the broken railing remains closed. That part requires grant funding, city officials say. Director of Public Works Lisa Peterson said in an email to the Tribune that an engineering report suggests it will cost several hundred thousand dollars to pay for replacement or repairs to the barrier railing.