[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "A Vermont Landfill is Contaminating a Canadian Lake with PFAS"

[Lenny Siegel]

A Vermont Landfill is Contaminating a Canadian Lake with PFAS
 

Pat Elder
Military Poisons
March 1, 2021

I’ll examine this international controversy and the threat to public health caused by PFAS from a landfill’s leachate. I’ll look at drinking water contamination and how PFAS bio-accumulates in fish. Finally, I’ll interview Henry Coe, a Vermont environmentalist who understands the history of this tragedy and the dangers inherent in disposing PFAS into surface waters. 

Radio Canada reported in mid-February, 2021 that PFAS chemicals had been discovered at the city of Sherbrooke’s drinking water intake area which is connected to Lake Memphremagog. Sherbrooke is located about 45 miles north of the Coventry Landfill in Vermont which has dumped millions of gallons of PFAS-laden leachate into the waters feeding the lake. The landfill, operated by Casella Waste Systems, is the only landfill in Vermont. It  handles the waste of all 625,000 Vermonters. The landfill is situated adjacent to wetlands and surface waters that drain into the lake. In this region, rivers and surface waters flow north into Canada.

In the fall of 2019, environmentalists won a four-year moratorium on the treatment of landfill leachate anywhere in the Memphremagog watershed. At the same time, Vermont’s Department of Environmental Conservation reported nearly 16,000 parts per trillion (ppt) of 12 varieties of PFAS in the leachate being dumped into the Clyde River which feeds into the lake.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/lake-memphremagog.html

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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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