The government is at last cracking down on PFAS chemicals coming out of your tap
became law, including $9 billion earmarked for the EPA to deal with emerging contaminants, including PFAS.
“The public water systems will be required to take what actions they need to monitor and install treatment if necessary,” says Burneson. “And now there is an historic amount of funding for this.” There is less money there than meets the eye, however. Even if the entire $9 billion were used to eliminate PFAS from the water supply—and it won’t be, since some of that funding will go to mitigating other pollutants—local water suppliers will incur some as-yet undetermined costs in installing filtration or switching to different wells or aquifers. But that will not necessarily hit consumers hard.
“Based on the available technology and based on what we’ve seen in states that have set more stringent limits for PFAS contamination, there has not been a significant increase in rates,” he says. Until the EPA rule is fully in effect, consumers willing to incur some expense can jump out ahead of the government and at least partly control the PFAS coming out of their own faucets. Getting your water tested for PFAS is possible, but it’s not cheap. “If someone wants to incur the cost of having their water tested, we [the EPA] do maintain lists of approved laboratories,” says Burneson, “but there would be some expense for that.
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