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"What we’re seeing ... is not just a local crisis." Scientists sound alarm over rising threat that's contaminating water ...
you’ve probably heard about PFAS – those pesky “forever chemicals” that seem to turn up everywhere from drinking water to polar bear blood. They’re bad for us, and we know it ...
It is the largest single clean-water settlement in New Jersey’s history, the state said. New Jersey sued 3M, DuPont and other PFAS manufacturers in 2019, saying the facility had contaminated ...
A week following a boil water notice in the Five Cities area, San Luis Obispo County is still investigating the cause of the contamination. While that order has been lifted for the communities of ...
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The contamination was found during a statewide investigation launched by the IEPA in 2021 to find whether the state's groundwater and/or drinking water had elevated levels of the chemicals.
two days after a water-contamination alert was issued for a wide swath of southern San Luis Obispo County. According to an emergency alert from the county, the boil-water order was lifted in ...
Bacterial water contamination has altered — and even halted — some business operations in the Five Cities area. On Wednesday night, a boil water notice was issued for cities in the South ...
Kennedy Elementary School in Blackstone. New water filtration system described as first of its kind in Massachusetts. Regional School Committee will have to vote to officially reopen the school.
The nine miles of piping running from Lake Erie to the water treatment plant go over the Envirosafe landfill in Oregon, and new soil samples near the pipes have found contamination that the city ...
A resident of Bristol, Connecticut, last month claimed that two strangers knocked on their door wanting to test the homeowner's water because it was purportedly contaminated, according to local ...