Erin Brockovich: ‘You have a PFAS contamination and it’s a big one’ (youtube.com)
Carpets. They used it to make the carpets waterproof. The PFAS are in the river etc. ‘If it’s not [cleaned up] by a third party like 3M, the taxpayer's gnna hve to do it.' ‘And it’s sickening for all of us that we have destroyed the most valuable assets that this country have, which is our land and our water.'
If you want action on this, one thing is to make PFAS test kits available on Amazon cheaper. I saw them for $300.
The town, Dalton, has sued Shaw Industries, a large carpet manufacturer and one of the area's largest employers, alleging the company helped spread PFAS.