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“‘Forever chemicals,’ known as PFAS, were found at levels that may pose a risk to human health in seven South Carolina private drinking water wells.
Most of those wells were in the Midlands, including Richland, Lexington and Sumter counties, and clustered near the Sandhills region. High levels weren’t detected anywhere in the Lowcountry, but some were found in York County in the Upstate.
The drinking water risk standards are related to long-term exposure — assuming that someone drinks 2.5 liters per day of contaminated water for 70 years.
‘There are a few places, especially in the vulnerable groundwater aquifers in the central part of the state, like the Sandhills and the Piedmont, that have elevated wastewater PFAS concentration,’ DHEC environmental risk specialist Ray Holberger said.” …