Read the full article by Reid Frazier (The Allegheny Front).
“Hannah Hohman and Koa Reitz stood on an old bridge on a sunny afternoon, looking down at the confluence of two streams. Hohman glanced back and forth between the iced-over streams below and the GPS on her phone.
‘I think that’s unnamed trib…and then that’s Montour…and they meet here,’ Hohman said.
Hohman, environmental steward at Three Rivers Waterkeeper, a local environmental group. Reitz is an environmental scientist with the group.
Since 2023, their group has been sampling streams around Pittsburgh International Airport for PFAS, a class of 14,000 compounds also known as ‘forever’ chemicals that have contaminated the environment nationwide.
The Waterkeeper’s monitoring data showed high levels of PFAS in Montour Run and its tributaries, as high as 430 parts per trillion,100 times the safety level of 4 parts per trillion established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water.”…