PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A member of parliament from a state in Australia toured the Plainfield Township water plant Thursday to learn how it removes PFAS from drinking water.
Cate Faehrmann is the chair of a committee in New South Wales looking into PFAS contamination.
PFAS is a class of man-made chemicals that have been found in all sorts of products from Teflon to Scotchgard and a type of firefighting foam used in fighting plane fires. The chemicals have leached in to water systems and made their way into people’s blood, where they remain for years. They have been linked to certain types of cancers.
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“What I’m hoping to do from this visit is to take what I learned today in this water filtration plant back to Australia,” Faehrmann said.
PFAS was recently discovered in some of the water supply to Sydney…