STEVE FELDMAN

BETH DAVIS

PLYMOUTH ENDANGERED PONDS FEED OUR FRAGILE AQUIFER – OUR SOLE SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER

What scared me most about writing The Plymouth Independent article on protecting Plymouth’s precious water supply:

  1. Learning how precarious Plymouth’s drinking water is from all sorts and sources of contamination.
  2. Hearing about the nation’s influx of harmful PFAS chemicals, found in virtually everything.

Yet, while helping me distill the original, complicated and contentious story into something readable, I knew my excellent editor would understably strike this paragraph:

“The state Department of Environmental Protection’s water-quality findings for Plymouth (while passing) plus all the national publicity around harmful PFAS forever chemicals – were enough for this reporter to purchase a home reverse-osmosis water filtration system.”

Read the final story: The town’s water supply is fragile. Is enough being done to protect it? – Plymouth Independent