Legislators, Scientists, Advocates Outline Steps to Ensure New Yorkers Know What is in Their Water

Albany, NY – On March 10, as the NYS Drinking Water Quality Council prepared to meet, key legislators, scientists, environmental organizations, and impacted community members urged the NYS Department of Health (DOH) to implement a new drinking water testing law. They urged DOH to set the lowest possible notification levels for each of 23 PFAS chemicals, so that whenever these PFAS are detected in drinking water, the public receives a letter in the mail about it. Water utilities can reliably detect these PFAS at levels around 2 parts per trillion (ppt).

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Source: EANY