![]() The chemicals turned up in both of the city’s wells serving about 3,000 residents. Used for decades to make non-stick and waterproof coatings, firefighting foams and food packaging, these industrial chemicals - per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS - have been linked to kidney cancer and other serious health conditions. Like nearly 150 other public water systems in California, the small city on the outskirts of Los Angeles had detected “forever chemicals” in its well water. ![]() In the weeks before the coronavirus began tearing through California, the city of Commerce made an expensive decision: It shut down part of its water supply. And many Californians don’t even know they’re drinking them. Part 2 What happens when a rural area’s only well is contaminated?.Part 1 Well water throughout California contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’. ![]()
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