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Potentially dangerous chemical found in Greensboro drinking water

Contaminant in Mitchell Water Plant drinking water

During the last three years, hydrologists have found water from Greensboro’s Mitchell Water Treatment Plant on Battleground Avenue with relatively high levels of an industrial chemical known as PFOS, which is suspected of causing human health problems and damage to developing fetuses when consumed over time in large enough doses.

Andrew Krech/News & Record

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GREENSBORO — Water-supply managers here are battling a chemical contaminant from the same family of man-made compounds as the GenX substance that made headlines recently by infiltrating the drinking water in North Carolina’s southeastern region.

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