Posted on 02.12.25

Oregon bill would assess ‘forever chemicals’ in fields fertilized with sewage sludge

Source: https://www.statesmanjournal.com/, February 10, 2025
By: Tracy Loew

For the third time, Oregon lawmakers are pushing a bill to study concentrations of the “forever chemical” PFAS in agricultural fields fertilized with sewage sludge.

Public wastewater systems throughout the state, including those in Salem, Eugene, Corvallis, Albany and Wilsonville, offer treated sludge leftover from sewage processing, known as biosolids, to farmers who don’t grow crops for human consumption. Read more.

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