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.
Unpublished Newswire
For at least four years, Ontario officials have known that the provincial safety limit for lead in drinking water doesn’t go far enough to protect the public, newly released documents show.
But despite internal proposals about taking action, and dialogue with municipalities regarding changes, no new lead quality standard has been introduced.
Officials at the Ontario Ministry of the Environment met to discuss reducing the province’s lead limit from 10 parts per billion (ppb) to match the federal Health Canada standard of five ppb as far back as June 2021, documents show.
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