Millions of Illinois residents get their drinking water from municipal and private wells contaminated with toxic forever chemicals
Mike and Kacy Krause are among the Chemtool neighbors who were evacuated. Late last year, officials from the Illinois EPA and county health department knocked on the couple’s door and asked if they could collect water samples from their well.The request wasn’t unusual, Mike Krause said. Shortly after moving in 20 years ago, he said, the Krauses discovered they had bought a house within a federalThe former Chemtool factory site in Rockton that was destroyed in a 2021 fire.
that manufactured papermaking equipment. But last year was the first time the state came looking for PFAS.“It was just ridiculous,” said Mike Krause, a construction contractor. The state’s proposed limit for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid is 7.7 ppt. Testing in the Blackhawk subdivision found levels nearly four times higher.PFOS once was used widely in firefighting foam and PFOA sometimes was an unintentional byproduct of foam manufacturing. Levels of both chemicals wereMike Krause picks up some of the empty jugs he and his wife Kacy buy for drinking water, June 22, 2023, in Rockton.
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