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Greensboro works on its PFOS problem as evidence of harm grows

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Greensboro works on its PFOS problem as evidence of harm grows

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• Jun 23, 2018
• Jun 23, 2018
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A map shows where testing for contaminants was done. Local investigators are focusing their search in industrialized areas around PTI because PFOS concentrations in streams that feed city reservoirs are highest in lake tributaries flowing through that area.

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The chemical compound PFOS emerged as a problem for the Greensboro water system during 2014, when researchers participating in a nationally required testing program found it at troublesome amounts in water from the Mitchell Water Treatment Plant.

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A pipe at the city’s newer Townsend Water Plant. The plant is being retrofitted with an advanced treatment system that should be in working order by the end of the year, officials say.

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Taft Wireback

GREENSBORO — Greensboro water supervisors are considering the next step after test wells at Piedmont Triad International Airport produced inconsistent results that have dimmed hopes for pinpointing a major source of the problem chemical PFOS, a harmful compound once heavily used in firefighting foam.

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