Park City officials enacted a drinking water regulation that prohibits using or selling a certain kind of ski wax they believe is causing contamination of groundwater wells and an aquifer.
Fluoro ski wax, which is usually labeled with LF and HF on packaging, contains polyfluoroalkyl substances.
received $2 billion in February under President Joe Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address emerging contaminants, including PFAS.Because of their widespread use and their persistence in the environment, many PFAS are found in the blood of people and animals all over the world and are present at low levels in a variety of food products and in the environment.There are thousands of PFAS chemicals, and they are found in many different consumer, commercial and industrial products.
DeHaan added the city is expecting an EPA draft set of parameters for the city's drinking water based on those groups of contaminants. Maine, in fact, became the first place in the world to enact a ban on products like rugs, new carpets and fabric treatments that contain PFAS chemicals that went into effect in January this year. Information on other products containing the chemicals must be provided to Maine water quality regulators.
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