The ABC can reveal that the state's health authority is now offering local councils help to test for PFAS in drinking water supplies, as scientists flag there is a knowledge gap in the size and spread of 'forever chemicals' across the state.
The state's health authority is offering to help local councils test for PFAS forever chemic als in drinking water supplies. NSW Health has confirmed to the ABC it is offering to help councils across the state to test for PFAS " forever chemic als" in water supplies.
Councils across NSW are responsible for supplying drinking water to more than 1.8 million people outside of the Sydney and Hunter regions.It comes as water scientists have warned a "knowledge gap" and lack of accountability over the scale and nature of PFAS across NSW may be putting people at risk. Prior to that, Sydney Water was only regularly monitoring one site in the catchment, North Richmond, near where PFAS-contaminated firefighting foam was used at Richmond RAAF base.
That study, again independent of government, showed the substance had bioaccumulated in the native species, even in remote areas such as the Tumut River east of Wagga Wagga. It will also arrange for a sampling kit to be provided and samples to be sent to an approved laboratory.
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