Officials knew carpet mill chemicals were polluting the region’s drinking water; they didn’t tell residents
Some of these chemicals, which didn’t adhere to carpets, were flushed with industrial wastewater into local sewer pipes and, eventually, the region’s rivers. Testing by the University of Georgia in 2008, when Bost was in her teens, alerted the industry and state that the local Conasauga River, which supplies the region’s drinking water, was polluted with "staggeringly high" levels of PFAS. Although officials with major carpet manufacturers say they stopped using PFAS in 2019, without extensive...
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