Posted on 12.02.20

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.

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