PFAS Contamination Makes It’s Way Into School Drinking Water

As PFAS contaminates communities wells and drinking water, it’s not just family homes that are effected. School water is being deemed unsafe as well, needing to be shut off.

Greg Barnes wrote an article on North Carolina Health News outlining some things North Carolina is seeing in terms of PFAS contamination. “Drinking fountains at [Alderman Road and Gray’s Creek elementary] schools have been turned off since 2017, when a low level of GenX was discovered in the water supply for Gray’s Creek Elementary School. Additional samples taken at that school in October found other PFAS nearing the threshold the state considers safe to drink”.

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