[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "PFC contamination closes public well in East Rockhill" (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFC contamination closes public well in East Rockhill

By Kyle Bagenstose and Chris Ullery, staff writers
Intelligencer (PA)
September 22, 2016
	

East Rockhill has joined a growing list of Bucks and Montgomery towns where water supplies have been contaminated by unregulated chemicals perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).

Lindsay Hughes, community relations coordinator with the North Penn Water Authority, which operates East Rockhill’s system, said Thursday that the chemicals were found earlier this month at levels above 70 parts per trillion (ppt). That’s the drinking water limit recommended in a health advisory level set by the Environmental Protection Agency.

“We shut down the well as soon as we found out,” Hughes said.

Hughes said the well was taken offline on Sept. 12, when results show it contained 117 ppt of the chemicals: 110 ppt of PFOS, and 7 ppt of PFOA.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theintell.com/news/horsham-pfos/pfc-contamination-closes-public-well-in-east-rockhill/article_4396073a-8103-11e6-82d6-bb620675c698.html

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