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    Utilities have also challenged the stringent new standard, questioning the underlying science and citing the cost of filtering the toxic chemicals out of drinking water.

    I’m glad I’m on a well

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      5 months ago

      Unless your well is drawing from an uncontaminated aquifer that isn’t recharged by rainwater, that doesn’t really help you. This class of chemicals wound up pretty much everywhere.

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        I was referring to the utilities response not the pollution itself. You’re not wrong.