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130+ Toxic Chemicals Found In Drinking Water Across NJ, New Study Says 130+ Toxic Chemicals Found In Drinking Water Across NJ, New Study Says
130+ Toxic Chemicals Found In Drinking Water Across NJ, New Study Says Drinking water in some Northeast states contains some of the highest levels of contaminants in the country, according to new data. The latest update to the Environmental Working Group's tap water database analyzed nearly 50,000 water systems nationwide between 2021 and 2023. The nonprofit identified 324 contaminants in drinking water, many at levels exceeding health-based guidelines. New York had the highest number in the region with 197 contaminants detected since 2013. New Jersey followed with 131, Pennsylvania with 123, and Connecticut with 120. Massachusetts recorde…

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by Chris Spiker
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'Forever Chemicals' NJ Town's Water Center Of Major Study 'Forever Chemicals' NJ Town's Water Center Of Major Study
'Forever Chemicals' NJ Town's Water Center Of Major Study Researchers at Rutgers University will be studying the long-term health effects of chemicals in a Gloucester County town's contaminated water supply. The pollution came from a plastics plant near Paulsboro. Solvay Solexis and Arkema of West Deptford settled a class-action lawsuit to clean up the drinking water believed contaminated back to 1980. PFAS — which are "forever" chemicals — are man-made chemicals that have been used in industry and manufacturing of consumer products since the 1950s, Rutgers says. Paulsboro, a town of 6,000 on the Delaware River, recorded the highest rate of …

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by Jon Craig
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Bergen's Tap Water Ranks 4th For Toxins In U.S., But Read This Before You Panic Bergen's Tap Water Ranks 4th For Toxins In U.S., But Read This Before You Panic
Bergen's Tap Water Ranks 4th For Toxins In U.S., But Read This Before You Panic The toxins are ubiquitous. They could be harmful. But New Jersey isn't the only state flooded with them, experts say. A sample of Bergen County's tap water (taken from Bergenfield last August) contained the fourth highest concentration of an increasingly-common group of toxins in the U.S., according to a series of lab tests by the Environmental Working Group. The EWG for the first time found the chemicals known as "PFAS" in the drinking water of dozens of U.S. cities, confirming that the number of Americans exposed to the chemicals by way of their drinking water "has been dramatically unde…

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by Cecilia Levine