Read the full article by Timothy B. Wheeler (Bay Journal)
“The glass of water that Jennifer Campagne draws from her kitchen faucet looks clear and clean. But ever since she had her household well tested and found ‘forever chemicals’ in it, she’s leery of using it, even to make coffee.
Campagne lives in a small cinderblock cottage in Hague, VA, on the overwhelmingly rural Northern Neck between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers. There are no nearby military bases, fire houses, factories or other likely sources of the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, detected in her well. There is, though, a farm field about 30 yards from her home where ‘biosolids,’ or treated sewage sludge, has been spread as fertilizer for corn and soybeans.
The biosolids applications have been a recurrent nuisance, she said, because of the stench that wafts onto her property for days afterward, but she figured that was the price of living in farm country. Now, she worries they could be a health hazard.” …