[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Well water throughout California contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’"

[Lenny Siegel]

Well water throughout California contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’

BY RACHEL BECKER 
Cal Matters (CA)
NOVEMBER 19, 2020

These chemicals are everywhere. They last forever. They’re expensive to get rid of. And many Californians don’t even know they’re drinking them.

In the weeks before the coronavirus began tearing through California, the city of Commerce made an expensive decision: It shut down part of its water supply.

Like nearly 150 other public water systems in California, the small city on the outskirts of Los Angeles had detected “forever chemicals” in its well water. 

Used for decades to make non-stick and waterproof coatings, firefighting foams and food packaging, these industrial chemicals — per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS — have been linked to kidney cancer and other serious health conditions. 

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For the entire article, see
https://calmatters.org/projects/california-water-contaminated-forever-chemicals/

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