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Posted on 02/02/2026 11:33:09 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
STELLA, Wis. (AP) — Kristen Hanneman made a small decision in 2022 that would upend life for her entire town.
State scientists were checking private drinking water wells across Wisconsin for a widely used family of harmful chemicals called PFAS. They mailed an offer to test the well outside her tidy farmhouse surrounded by potato farms cut out of dense forest. Without much thought, she accepted.
Months later, Hanneman found herself on the phone with a state toxicologist who told her to stop drinking the water — now. The well her three kids grew up on had levels thousands of times higher than federal drinking water limits for what are commonly known as forever chemicals.
Hanneman’s well was hardly the only one with a problem. And the chemicals were everywhere. Pristine lakes and superb hunting made Stella a sportsman’s dream. Now officials say the fish and deer should be eaten sparingly or not at all.
Many residents here have known their neighbors for decades. If they want to move away from all this, it’s hard to sell their property – who, after all, would want to buy?
“Had I just thrown that survey in the garbage,” Hanneman said, “would any of this be where it is today?”
Stella is far from the only community near industrial sites and military bases nationwide where enormous amounts of PFAS have contaminated the landscape, posing a particular threat to nearby well owners.
Forever chemicals get their name because they resist breaking down, whether in well water or the environment. In the human body, they accumulate in the liver, kidneys and blood. Research has linked them to an increased risk of certain cancers and developmental delays in children.
Government estimates suggest as much as half of U.S. households have some level of PFAS in their water — whether it comes from...
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A good RO filter should remove almost all of it.
Now that little piece of info wouldn’t cause mass hysteria.
A good catalytic carbon filter brings the PFAS / PFOS numbers down, over 90%.
NO, filters cannot fix this problem. Only if everyone moves into the 10 minute cities, and is scanned and photos of every piece of our lives downloaded, will this be fixed.
My tongue is firmly planted in my cheek here...
Quit eating what we call food, but is actually poison. We can have a device that makes food like on Star Trek. Push a button, get faux bacon and eggs.
Tongue in cheek throughout.
That’s why I only drink water out of plastic jugs. 🤣
Notice no real information is presented here. Just emotional manipulation....................
You’re right, PFAS is an issue, especially on FUDS and former military installations.
Cleanup is expensive and long-term monitoring and land use controls are also used to help reduce exposure.
Our city forced us off of our well water, to sell us well water from THEIR source, which has more chemicals in it than our well had, PLUS fluoride. The difference in cost to consumer is...a little electricity vs 80 a month and dry lawns.
Fear Porn.
What is the differential in diseases in the area?
The article is very heavy on scare and very light on actual, proven dangers.
Exactly- and any sensible rural well water drinker would, or should no this. No problem whatsoever. Also, they need to understand what kind of ppms of what chemicals they say they can and have detected. This is deliberately left out the A@@ Press narrative.
What chemicals, and what parts per million. And finally if they are miles from the potential source of the ground water, then how deep is their well and what is the soil/ground gradient. All pertinent, and this article is otherwise propaganda and... bull road apples. E Coli is something else— and far more deadly.
So, Is this the replacement for microplastic hysteria?
I was just getting used to turning into Barbie.
Here is an example of the scare tactics:
“A grant did help Cindy Deere, who worries about how 25 years of drinking the water in Stella may affect her health. She replaced her well and a test confirmed the new one was PFAS-free. Still, she has a hard time trusting the water.”
If there was any substance to the scare, it would be states. But it isn’t stated, just vague reverences to “may” or “could be” associated with. Who decided? The EPA, as if they have any credibility left.
I read that those wells are SATURATED with Hydrogen Di-oxide!
Some PFAS info for military installations and FUDS:
https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/docs/PFAS-EA-Final-Report-508.pdf
A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells
Who's right and who's wrong?
Our bodies may not be riddled with microplastics after all — scientists say research is ‘not biologically plausible’ and ‘a joke’ (1.15.26)
I say consider filtering your water with a tested and approved filter design.
It is highly disputed about the effects from PFAS. Not all scientists agree.
It was the environmental group owned President Auto-Pen who set the limit to ZERO
Not all PFA’s are harmful to humans. I wish they would do some more testing and list what chemicals they find.
“ Forever chemicals get their name because they resist breaking down…”
These chemicals were developed because they don’t react with other chemicals. They pose little risk because they don’t react with anything in the body.
There is a subset of these chemicals that are somewhat similar in shape to the base pairs in DNA, and therefore might promote mutations, but the research on this isn’t conclusive, especially when compared to other similarly shaped molecules such as dioxin.
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