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Bergen County Drinking Water Sample Ranks 4th in National Study for Toxic PFAS

A drinking water sample taken from a Bergen County town had one of the highest concentrations of an increasingly common group of toxic chemicals found across the nation in a survey of water systems, according to a report issued Wednesday.

The sample taken in Bergenfield in August detected 12 compounds of PFAS, a group of man-made chemicals used in everyday products for almost a century and which have been linked in recent years to cancer and other ailments.

Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://northjersey.com/story/news/environment/2020/01/23/bergen-county-drinking-water-sample-ranks-fourth-toxic-pfas-national-study-ewg-pfoa-forever-chemical/4542091002/