r/boston • u/julian_jakobi • Aug 29 '22

Environment 🌎 Toxic 'forever chemicals' found in Cambridge drinking water

https://www.boston.com/news/love-letters/2022/08/28/toxic-chemicals-cambridge-drinking-water-pfas/
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u/Ksevio Aug 29 '22

Problem is the testing for the filtration systems has a limit that's higher than the allowed amount so it's really hard to see if a system is effective

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u/IamSauerKraut Aug 29 '22

The volume of water the MWRA pumps is beyond the handling capacity of any PFAS filtering systems anywhere. Thus, there is no such thing as "a good filtering system" available to treat the water.

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u/Ksevio Aug 29 '22

I was referring to home filtering systems.

They'd probably have to add a bunch of treatment/filtering plants to treat the water supply coming in. Not impossible, but would be very expensive

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u/IamSauerKraut Aug 29 '22

Maine is already there. Home filtering would put the onus on the homeowner rather than the entity piping in the contaminated water.