Waterloo idles well contaminated by 'forever chemicals'
Contamination is within new federal limits on PFAs, but city won't use the well anyway.
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Contamination is within new federal limits on PFAs, but city won't use the well anyway.
Recent tests of Waterloo drinking water revealed one of the city’s wells has detectable amounts of PFAS, a toxic group of chemicals that are newly regulated by federal officials. The city decided to stop drawing water from that well — even though its contamination is within the new limits — because its other wells have […] The post Waterloo idles drinking water well contaminated by ‘forever chemicals’ appeared first on Iowa Capital Dispatch.
Recent tests of Waterloo drinking water revealed one of the city’s wells has detectable amounts of PFAS, a toxic group of chemicals that are newly regulated by federal officials. The city decided to stop drawing water from that well — even though its contamination is within the new limits — because its other wells have […] The post Waterloo idles drinking water well contaminated by ‘forever chemicals’ appeared first on Iowa Capital Dispatch.
In addition to being eastern Iowa cities, there are at least two other things Dubuque has in common with Camanche, Davenport, Buffalo, Burlington and Muscatine.
At least 12 community drinking water supplies in Iowa are unacceptably contaminated with enduring chemicals linked to various health ailments, under new restrictions announced Wednesday by federal regulators.