The Fairhope Times

Fairhope, Alabama    Well 4. Well 5.   CALLED PFAS Mayor Sullivan says drilling a new well and carbon filtration are possible ways the city could comply with new EPA regulations announced last week for per and poly-fluoroalkyl chemicals detected in the city's water supply. (Also detected in Daphne's, Foley's, and numerous other water systems in the county.) According to online sources: "Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of man-made chemicals suspected to cause adverse human and ecological health effects. The acronym “PFAS” encompasses thousands of individual compounds. The two most studied and regulated are perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). PFAS, including PFOA and PFOS, have entered the environment from a variety of sources and release scenarios, including releases from manufacturing facilities and areas where aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), a type of fire-fighting foam, was applied. Many PFAS