‘This is taking too long’: California community awaits cleanup of PFAS-contaminated wells

By an James | Los Angeles Times | August 5, 2023

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"Kathy Borland has lived for four decades in a house beside the San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport, raising seven children and using water from the family’s well to water the garden, cook and drink.

Over the years, she sometimes noticed fire trucks stopped on the tarmac, but she never thought much about it. In June of last year, she was notified that her well was contaminated with high levels of harmful PFAS chemicals from the firefighting foam used during drills. Dozens of her neighbors were also warned of chemicals in their water.

“We don’t really know how long this contamination has been going on,” Borland said. “It could have taken 20 years to seep into our groundwater.”