Nearly a decade after a warning from the feds, the city's tap water struggles show how slow, complicated and expensive it can be to clean up forever chemicals.
Year after year, the chemicals traveled in water discarded during manufacturing from mills across northwest Georgia, eventually reaching a river system that provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in Georgia and eastern Alabama.
In the mills of northwest Georgia, workers treated carpets with these chemicals starting in the 1970s. Carried in manufacturing wastewater, the chemicals spread into rivers and, ultimately, drinking water.
The contaminated river flows into Alabama, where state officials do not typically test private wells for PFAS.
Trout from the Benner Spring State Fish Hatchery near State College meet safety levels, officials say.
For 25 years this waterway was polluted with toxic "forever chemicals". It was only disconnected from a major drinking supply 18 months ago.
Today, Lake Michigan is not sending up a warning flag. The threats to our waters are insidiously obscured from sight.
A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South.
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A bill advancing through the Iowa Senate would require fire districts and city councils in the state to consider switching to a soybean-based firefighting foam in an effort to reduce exposure to forever chemicals.
A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South.
A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South.
A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South.
A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South.
A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South.
A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South.
A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South.
A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South.
A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South.
A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South.
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