Yes, I agree. They bought a database of customers from Versant, no doubt. I imagine those lists are more expensive than just buying a list of resident names in any given area. Target your audience or spam them is the choice depending on how much you want to spend on advertising I guess.

Raised beds are just easier all the way around anyway, well except for installing them in the first place, but after that, easier for weeds and rodent control :-).

It might be worth getting the soil tested anyway in case roots go deeper than your raised beds and if you have kids that like to go out and play. Plus if you test early and have a problem, you can get on the list (if there's a list) for clean up assistance.

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Thank you! We plan on gardening this year and this has been a concern. We were going to to raised beds to help, but knowing our soils condition would certainly ease the mind

That's a relief your water is safe. Hope your garden soil, fruit trees and berry bushes are safe too.

Here's some info on getting your yard soil tested: https://extension.umaine.edu/gardening/understanding-pfas-and-your-home-garden/step-5/

How’d you get on the other side of the barriers!? So sketchy.

Why though? Safer than landing a boat on those rocks four times a day.

I see you like to live... dangerously. 🤣

No I just figured I'd ask cuz it's like the fifth time I've received the same piece of mail I really just rip it up and throw it away that's that the same as any other junk mail but like five times really

The French guillotine time was not actually good. The reign of terror was frankly horrific.

We actually asked our town for a water report on PFAS and they were able to provide one (which surprised us).

I'd wager most of us will have some contact with PFAS regardless. We're just lucky that our drinking water tested clean here

I hate to break it to you but there are likely PFAS where you chose to live. It just hasn't been tested and/or mapped yet.

PFAS have been found in deer, fish and other wild edibles, not just soil and water.

I hope the money goes to testing in rural areas so the real scope of the problem is identified. We aren't even at the clean up phase yet.

19million?

So here's something to think about. I used to live in a house with Versant power in my dad's name. I then moved to a place with CMP power. My parents still owned the place with Versant, though, so to help them out I kept paying the power bill there, but left it in my dad's name. So now I'm at a house in CMP's service area, paying a bill for Versant. And I'm getting flyers that are in my dad's name saying "Versant customer". The ONLY way they could have gotten that info is if Versant themselves sold it to them.

While I appreciate the funding, 19 mil is peanuts compared to the scope of the problem.

I don't know about the cheapest other than doing it yourself but I highly recommend Fenchtech out of Hollis

>The entities responsible for introducing these chemicals and continuing to manufacture them need to be held morally and financially accountable.

It is similar to when gas producers were putting lead in the gas.... despite knowing the effects of lead in the environment and on humans.

So instead of owning up to the damage they were causing (or the government doing anything to prevent it), they were allowed to continue for many decades and cause country wide contamination and lead poisoning in people....

The punishment? Massive profits... and then eventually (after a very very long time) they were told to cut it out. There is no accountability, that isn't how America handles public safety issues.

Trust no one.

im so glad its team Biden managing this and not Trump. The leadership has been great and I don't think anything they have said has been dishonest.....

Who you gonna trust? Some paranoid redneck who can't tell one chemical from another? A bunch of imbeciles who can't seem to understand that the fucking cloud moved out to sea almost two weeks ago? Or maybe a group of scientists who actually know what they're talking about?

Excellent. I'm glad there are ground and air reports that I have not seen yet.

Nice! where did you find it?

>Unless they have cleaned up the chemicals, don't think of them as a mass that is moving. Think of them as a mass that is spreading.

Based on ground and air observation reports, that is not happening. There is no mass in the air that is moving. Localized fumes in eastern OH are not moving into Maine. There may be spots in the ground that remain contaminated but the site is undergoing remediation.

I attended a school board meeting recently where administrators were discussing the ongoing need to supply bottled water due to the buildings nearly 800 foot deep well being contaminated by PFAS. The scale of this disaster is far bigger than most people understand. The entities responsible for introducing these chemicals and continuing to manufacture them need to be held morally and financially accountable.

If the air readers aren't finding any, apparently none.