PFAS

New Castle, Delaware, found high levels of PFAs, or forever chemicals, in their water in 2014. Since then they have been filtering their water supply before it goes into homes. NBC10 investigative reporter Claudia Vargas has more on the solutions that seem to be working.

Delaware has been ahead of the curve in installing treatment systems to remove forever chemicals from its drinking water. But NBC10’s Investigative Reporter Claudia Vargas discovered that not all the filtration systems are capturing all the contamination. While Delaware currently doesn’t have its own limit on forever chemicals, water systems in the state had multiple water samples that showed levels...

Some municipalities in our region are struggling to protect their residents from the contamination of forever chemicals in their water supply. Brooklawn, New Jersey residents have been dealing with this issue since 2022 when the borough’s water tested above the state limits. The town received a $1 million grant to purchase a carbon filter to remove the chemicals— but...

So-called “forever chemicals” or PFAs have been found in school wells that serve hundreds of children in southeastern Pennsylvania. NBC10 investigative reporter Claudia Vargas has more on how districts are managing their drinking water.

How are towns and schools in our region managing forever chemical contamination in their water supplies? NBC10’s Investigative Reporter Claudia Vargas has how the small town of Emmaus in the Lehigh Valley found the chemicals in 2021 and plans to use a carbon-based filtration system to pump out the polluted water—but that isn’t likely to be installed until 2026.

The NBC10 Investigators went across the tri-state region to find out how towns and schools are handling “forever chemicals” or PFAS, in the drinking water.

So-called “forever chemicals” have seeped into people’s drinking water over the decades. The NBC10 investigators went across the tri-state region looking at how towns and schools are handling the contamination of PFAS, or forever chemicals.