Homeowner’s guide to filtering out PFAS from water supply [Video]

Protecting your family from PFAs

PFAS — odorless and colorless — are an invisible threat in our drinking water supply.

“It’s a forever chemical, this isn’t going away,” declares Dave Schulenberg, executive director of the Minnesota Water Well Association. “We’re going to have to understand it, live with it, treat it, remediate it.”

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says those chemicals are now in 22 water systems in 17 cities.

The agency is now sharing a map showing where a PFAS plume is heading in the east metro in coming decades — from the St. Croix River to the west, drifting toward Woodbury and Afton to the south, Lake Elmo to the north, and Maplewood to the west.

“It’s not biodegradable,” Schulenberg says. “You can’t throw it out into the sun and have it become nothing like you can …

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