A Drop In The PFAS Response Bucket

Kudos to the Baker-Polito Administration for getting $3 million in state aid to 17 communities struggling to figure out what to do about the detection in their public water supplies of the "forever chemicals" known as PFAS at concentrations higher than what DEP has determined to be "protective".   

Massachusetts was one of the first states in the union to set "protective" levels.  The Federal Government and most States still have not done so.  Of course $3 million is a tiny fraction of what will be necessary to treat drinking water in these communities and the countless others that have not yet determined that they are in the same boat.  In the meantime tens of thousands of residents of the Commonwealth have come to fear their drinking water.  Many of those who can afford to do so are now buying bottled water. More will continue to live in fear of this basic necessity for the months if not years it will take to design and implement the additional treatment to