Wouldn't be the least bit surprised.

Cool that citizen testing is what found it, though. Trust your neighbors more than any company.

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That's why I prefer my neighbors be the company owners.

Sounds like it was the local river keeper association. Ted’s the river keeper.

https://lowersusquehannariverkeeper.org/

I may be making this up completely but I could’ve swore “forever chemicals” can be cleaned up and removed from the environment, I can vaguely remember reading an article about it

Highest levels in the country, that's crazy

They’re just now starting to figure out how to filter them out. But only kind of in a academic setting.

Cyclopure In the photo is one of the only commercial entities claiming to be able to filter it.

By forever chemicals they mean they’ll never breakdown on their own.

Modern landfill is a special kind of shit hole. It’s something like 84% of the waste is from out of state. We’re just a dumping ground for NY and NJ.

Wouldnt expect any different from a place with a name like that. It sounds like a Simpsons gag.

Edit to add: I grew up right next to this creek. Myself, and without any exaggeration, every single female friend I still have from that local area, we all have a PCOS diagnosis. Ive had conversations for 15+ years where we said only half in jest that it must be something in the water. Now this?!

lol yea dumb name.

Wow. Did you grow up on well water or is it york water company out there? I’m not super familiar with the area just pass through from time to time.

Our old farm property had well water, but I think the next people to live there went over to city water in the mid90s.

Someone recently found a way to do it to a sample in a lab.

Still a long ways from cleaning up a body of water, or your body.

There are several treatment technologies that can remove PFAS/PFOA to meet recommended drinking water concentrations.

https://www.epa.gov/research-states/pfas-treatment-drinking-water-and-wastewater-state-science#:~:text=It%20is%20currently%20known%20that,a%20balance%20between%20many%20factors.

As with any treatment, the question is how do you dispose of the treatment systems byproducts (GAC/resins/membrane backwash & cleaning washwaters) when they reach end-of-service removal efficiencies.

No gloves?

From what I understand true pfas testing requires way more than gloves. Like a full suit. No showers or shampoos for a day. Something along those lines. PFAS are literally everywhere. In our soaps, clothes, food, furniture, water, everything.

Yes. Makes me doubt the legitimacy of those results. Aaaand the company that makes those PFAS sampling bottles doesn't have an accredited lab or use an approved sample method for analysis.