Credit Ben Meyer/WXPR Only “trace amounts” of PFAS were found in liquid discharged from the long-closed City of Rhinelander landfill, new testing shows.
The testing was part of an effort to identify sources of PFAS contamination in Rhinelander-area water. High levels of PFAS forced the city to shut down two of its five municipal drinking water wells in 2019.
“I am pleased to report that our first round of analytical samples of five samples from the City of Rhinelander Legacy Landfill contained relatively low-levels of PFAS, as might be expected for a common municipal solid waste landfill,” said Dr. James Tinjum, who the city hired to consult on PFAS issues.