Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Lindsay Jones, Patrick White
Publication Date: October 14, 2025 - 04:00
Transport Canada failed to track ‘forever chemicals’ in tap water, Newfoundland residents say
October 14, 2025
Newfoundlanders living near St. John’s International Airport say Transport Canada has failed to track a plume of toxic “forever chemicals” seeping into local drinking water, leaving residents and a university chemist to do the work themselves.
The town of Torbay is one of dozens of sites near airports and military bases where firefighting foams laced with polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) leached into the groundwater and, in some cases, contaminated the drinking water of nearby property owners.
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