(David Kasnic/For The Washington Post)A themed home along Riverview Drive, the town’s main road. (David Kasnic/For The Washington Post)A shuttered paper mill is a suspected source of the water contamination. Health officials undertook statewide tests this year across 1,380 public water supplies and at more than 400 schools that operate their own wells. But thousands of other PFAS chemicals remain in use — among the many threats, including arsenic and lead, to drinking water nationwide. Some states have taken aggressive steps on their own, with New Jersey the first to regulate certain types of PFAS chemicals in its drinking water.

Source: Washington Post January 02, 2019 12:00 UTC