Pa. To Test Drinking Water For Toxic Chemicals

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Pennsylvania is set to begin sampling drinking water across the state later this month in a bid to determine whether a class of highly toxic chemicals is contaminating the supply.
Department of Environmental Protection officials tell The Philadelphia Inquirer the plan is on track to start around the end of May.
The perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known collectively as PFAS, have turned up increasingly in public water systems and private wells around the c