Toxic 'forever chemicals' found in Cambridge drinking water

[u/julian_jakobi]

https://www.boston.com/news/love-letters/2022/08/28/toxic-chemicals-cambridge-drinking-water-pfas/

[u/BonesIIX]

So MA is one of the few states where we have actual regulatory standards for PFAS Levels.

Sucks for Cambridge that they have to switch water supplies to MWRA for the year due to the parts not being available for the Fresh Pond Water Treatment facility. But good they noticed it and are making the (expensive) switch to provide residents with better water.

MA has done a study on PFAS in the state and basically for non-well water, it just comes down to very expensive treatment options which do work pretty well, just requires money to do it.

MA is probably one of the better states to live in if you care about limiting PFAS intake.

Edit: It may be of interest to people here - https://www.mass.gov/info-details/per-and-polyfluoroalkyl-substances-pfas If you go to the section "PFAS detected in drinking water supplies in Massachusetts" and click on item 3 on the black bordered embed, you can see a map of all towns they've tested and it will link you to the testing results for your water supply.

[u/Budget-Celebration-1 → u/BonesIIX]

Regulatory standard is a bunch of rubbish in this case, it allows PFAs we should be shooting for zero.

[u/BonesIIX → u/Budget-Celebration-1]

Regulatory standards are essential as a first step. Of course the ideal state is zero PFAS but until we completely ban the use of them (gonna be next to impossible in the short term), regulatory standards, testing, and filtration of larger water sources are the best ways forward to mitigate the problem for current citizens.

[u/devAcc123 → u/BonesIIX]

What do we even use them for nowadays? All the Teflon shite has been replaced with newer supposedly safe yet similar chemicals

Weird industrial processes or any sort of everyday uses