PFAS in Our Ground, Our Water and Our Food

We are farmers, neighbors and families in the Pee Dee who live on land where sludge was spread.

PFAS are in our soil, our wells, our food and our blood. Nobody tested the sludge before it went on the ground. Nobody is testing it now.

This site is here to:

Explain PFAS in plain words, with sources anyone can check.

Help people test their water, soil, food and blood.

Ask the state and the companies the questions nobody else is asking.

Push for PFAS testing before any sludge goes on any field.

Stand up for the farmers who were harmed, and make the companies that made and spread these chemicals pay for the cleanup.

We are not here to scare anybody. We are here so people know what is in their ground and have the facts to stand on.

Clean ground is common ground. It belongs to all of us.

The Series

Nine series, each in plain language with its own sources. Start with Forever in the Ground, or jump to whatever matters most to you.

1.Forever in the GroundThe PFAS story, start to finish: from a 1938 lab accident to the farm fields of Darlington County. A prequel and ten parts.
2.The DuPontsHow DuPont started, why it did what it did, and where it stands now. Six parts.

3.Sludge in South Carolina: Who's Spreading ItThe companies spreading sludge in South Carolina, and why your county can't stop it. Thirteen parts.

4.Who's Checking Our Food?Who tests our milk, meat and produce for PFAS, and what falls through the cracks. Eight parts.
5.What Are Our Doctors Doing?What PFAS can do to our bodies, what doctors are supposed to do about it, and what's happening here. Ten parts.

6.Ponds, Creeks and RiversPFAS in groundwater, ponds, creeks, rivers and lakes, and what it means for swimming, fishing, hunting, wells and livestock. Six parts.
7.Dust, Skin and Other Ways InBreathing dust from fields, getting it on your skin, and the other ways it gets in. Five parts.

8.Long and Short-ChainThe old long-chain PFAS, the short-chain ones that replaced them, and why both are a problem. Nine parts.

9.Can It Be Cleaned Up?What's being tried to get PFAS out of water and soil, what works, what doesn't yet, and who is paying for it. Six parts.

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