[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "How three [Pennsylvania] towns outside Philly became ‘trailblazers’ on clean drinking water"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

How three towns outside Philly became ‘trailblazers’ on clean drinking water

by Justine McDaniel and Laura McCrystal
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
August 30, 2019

In 2016, amid public panic and bureaucratic confusion over the water contamination affecting tens of thousands of Bucks and Montgomery Counties residents, Horsham Township officials wanted to make the municipal drinking water safe. They decided to aim higher than the cleanup threshold recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, even if water customers and taxpayers had to cover the cost themselves.

They planned an ambitious project that included building and installing six water filtration systems to remove all traces of per- and polyflouroalkyl substances - or PFAS, which have been discovered in communities nationwide, and are linked to health problems including cancer - from their public drinking water.

Three years later, it’s nearly finished. Horsham and its neighbors Warrington and Warminster Townships appear to be the only municipalities in the country that have acted to remove all traces of PFAS from their water supplies, according to local officials and the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.inquirer.com/news/horsham-pfas-wells-warminster-water-contamination-20190830.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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