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“There was a time on hot summer days when Jackie Monette would carry a lounge chair down to the river that burbles below her house, set it up in the rushing waters and relax. But she doesn’t do that anymore.
In 2016, high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—PFAS—were discovered in Monette’s drinking water well at her home in the upstate New York town of Petersburgh, along with the wells of many of her neighbors. Petersburgh’s municipal water supply was also tainted, as was the Little Hoosic River, where Monette liked to cool off.
‘I didn’t know I was sitting in a pool of poison,’ says Monette, a 68-year-old retired elementary school art teacher who taught at a local school district.” …