Maine homeowners seek more time to sue over chemical contamination 'Everything has been taken away, and there’s nothing that we did,' said one Fairfield homeowner whose land and water are contaminated by the 'forever chemicals' known as PFAS. Share Catherine Harrington stands in her yard on Howe Road in Fairfield in January, near fields where sludge was kept and spread for years. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel Thirty years ago, Bruce Harrington was so concerned about the sludge being spread as fertilizer on a farm near his family’s Fairfield home that he confronted the drivers of the trucks literally “drooling” with the foul-smelling waste.