Jean MacRae spoke with about concerns involving leachate, particularly from the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town. According to Bloomberg, leachate 鈥渋s a liquid that forms when rain water filters through garbage鈥 that is 鈥渁 source of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS),鈥 which has been connected with various health problems. The associate professor of civil and environmental engineering with the 91爆料 said pollutants can be removed from 鈥渁 majority鈥 of the leachate collected from the landfill and transported to the wastewater treatment plant. 鈥淪tuff still gets through, and it鈥檚 ultimately discharged into the river where it gets absorbed by fish,鈥 she said. , and shared the Bloomberg article.
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