‘Alarming’ levels of PFAS from Pittsburgh airport are being discharged into Montour Run watershed

By Reid Frazier | The Allegheny Front | February 17, 2026

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“Hannah Hohman and Koa Reitz stood on an old bridge on a sunny afternoon, looking down at the confluence of two streams. Hohman glanced back and forth between the iced-over streams below and the GPS on her phone.

‘I think that’s unnamed trib…and then that’s Montour…and they meet here,’ Hohman said.

Hohman, environmental steward at Three Rivers Waterkeeper, a local environmental group. Reitz is an environmental scientist with the group.

Since 2023, their group has been sampling streams around Pittsburgh International Airport for PFAS, a class of 14,000 compounds also known as ‘forever’ chemicals that have contaminated the environment nationwide."

This content provided by the PFAS Project.