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PFAs on Farm Fields Are Contaminating Drinking Water

State regulators found PFAS levels up to 2,100 ppt in Brookside Village wells and linked the contamination to sludge spread on nearby farmland.

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This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. When Nicole Williams moved into her house in Pennsylvania’s North Centre Township in 2011, it was a homecoming. She’d spent the first few years of her life a half-mile down the road in Brookside Village, a tidy community of 170 mobile homes nestled between the wes…

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PFAs on farm fields are contaminating drinking water

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. When Nicole Williams moved into her house in Pennsylvania’s North Centre Township in 2011, it was a homecoming. She’d spent the first few years of her life a half-mile down the road in Brookside Village, a tidy community of 170 mobile homes nestled between the wes…

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The Specter of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Looms Over Pennsylvania’s Rural Communities - Bucks County Beacon

The sewage sludge some farmers have applied to their fields for decades is contaminated with PFAS—with serious consequences for drinking water.

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The Specter of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Looms Over Pennsylvania’s Rural Communities

The sewage sludge some farmers have applied to their fields for decades is contaminated with PFAS—with serious consequences for drinking water.

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Inside Climate News broke the news on Saturday, September 26, 2026.
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