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“The nonprofit Savannah Riverkeeper has tested nearly 30 soil and surface water samples in the Savannah River basin over the past two years—all of which were contaminated with PFAS.
‘I don’t have a sample yet that doesn’t have PFAS in it,’ said Tonya Bonitatibus, executive director of Savannah Riverkeeper.
PFAS, short for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, is a class of about 15,000 chemicals manufactured by U.S. companies since the 1940s that lets oil glide on non-stick pans, water roll off of raincoats and firefighting foams spread across surfaces. But these slippery substances also evade chemical breakdown—they can’t be boiled, dissolved or easily filtered out—hence their moniker ‘forever chemicals.'” …