Read the full article by Shannon Kelleher (The New Lede)
“Rick Wawrzeniak is tired of worrying about ‘forever chemicals.’
Since 2004, the 51-year-old has lived in a comfortable suburb of Salisbury, a city of about 33,000 people in Maryland’s Eastern Shore region, in the house where he and his wife raised their two sons. Wawrzeniak works as a police officer and recently completed a three-year stint as president of the neighborhood homeowners’ association.
Long before testing alerted residents to alarmingly high levels of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their well water, Wawrzeniak thought something might be wrong. He had been in such good physical condition that he regularly competed in cycling events, but about eight years ago something changed.” …