Sewage sludge spreading leads to farm groundwater PFAS contamination
Source: https://vtdigger.org/, April 12, 2020
By: Elizabeth Gribkoff
The long-standing practice of spreading treated sewage sludge and septage on farm fields has contaminated groundwater in some areas with PFAS, recent sampling shows.
The discovery has prompted a state agriculture official to say that a prohibition on harvesting feed and crops from those fields may be needed, And it has led a coalition of environmental groups to call on the state to test for PFAS levels in biosolids before they are spread on fields. Read more.