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A new study suggests unregulated “precursor” compounds account for half of total PFAS pollution at sites around the country.

Toxic PFAS chemicals from a fire training site at Joint Base Cape Cod are still leaching into groundwater decades after training took place, according to a new study from Harvard researchers. The site was contaminated with PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam.

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Uncovering hidden chemicals Leah Burrows Editors note: Reprinted with permission from the Harvard Gazzette. T he Harvard scientists in this study are part of the STEEP Superfund Research Program Center, a partnership between the University of Rhode Island, Harvard, and the Silent Spring Institute, working closely with the Town of Barnstable and the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition. Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have found large qu...

Uncovering Hidden Forever Chemicals New tool finds and fingerprints previously undetected PFAS compounds in watersheds on Cape Cod Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) found large quantities of previously undetectable compounds from the family of chemicals known as PFAS in six watersheds on Cape Cod using a new method to quantify and identify PFAS compounds. Exposures to some PFAS, widely used for their ability to repel heat, water, and ...

‘Forever chemicals’ pervade drinking water sources on Cape Cod, study finds The compounds have been linked to cancer, low infant birth weights, and suppression of the immune system By David Abel Globe Staff,Updated March 8, 2021, 12:06 p.m. Email to a Friend Andrew Gottlieb, the executive director of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, steered his boat on Mashpee Wakeby Pond, a watershed affected by chemical pollutants.Lane Turner/Globe Staff The primary source of drinking water fo...

HYANNIS – A study released Friday by Harvard University researchers found that conventional testing for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) found just a fraction of what was actually present in water tested at sampling sites in the Childs River and Quashnet River watersheds in Mashpee, and the Mill Creek watershed in Hyannis.  But the finding no one expected was an additional large amount of PFAS in these three watersheds that had previously gone undetected and was not from firefig...

 E-Mail Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) found large quantities of previously undetectable compounds from the family of chemicals known as PFAS in six watersheds on Cape Cod using a new method to quantify and identify PFAS compounds. Exposures to some PFAS, widely used for their ability to repel heat, water, and oil, are linked to a range of health risks including cancer, immune suppression, diabetes, and low infant birth weight. Th...