The city of Dallas’ water system meets the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recently announced limits for “forever chemicals.”
There is no safe level of exposure to PFAS and they pose a risk to human health, scientists say., chemicals that resist grease, oil, water and heat. They are known as “forever chemicals,” because they break down slowly over time.With new federal limits on chemicals in our water supply, Dallas residents need to understand the levels of so-called “forever chemicals” in water they use every day, as well as potential health effects and costs associated with reducing these chemicals.
“These regulations make it a very important step forward, but there’s more work to be done to clean up this contamination and ensure that our regulatory system is robust enough so that this doesn’t happen again,” said Andrews.department of civil, environmental and construction engineering at Texas Tech Universityand the other is ion exchange,” said Guelfo, whose research is focused on investigating and managing the remediation of PFAS in drinking water systems.
, including addressing PFAS contamination. Of that, $9 billion is specifically for tackling PFAS and emerging contaminants, according to the EPA news release.“The vast majority of systems will have to cover that cost one way or another. It’ll either be through water rate increases or the system is able to absorb the new costs into their existing budget,” said Moody. “For a system of the size of Dallas, those costs could exceed $50 to $100 a year per household.
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