Hoosick Falls PFOA

After PFAS contamination was first detected more than a decade ago, the Village of Hoosick Falls is now celebrating a new water supply.

More than a decade since PFAS was first detected in tap water in the Village of Hoosick Falls, the Rensselaer County community today is celebrating a new municipal water supply. PFAS contamination has been linked to ill-health effects including cancer.

A major milestone was celebrated Tuesday in the village of Hoosick Falls, which has grappled with PFOA pollution for nearly a decade.

A beloved community member and key voice in exposing the harmful contamination of water supplies in Hoosick Falls, New York has died.

(Airs 07/20/23 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina speaks with Vanessa Fajans-Turner Executive Director of Environmental Advocates New York.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has reached a $45 million agreement with Saint-Gobain and Honeywell to implement a new water supply for the Rensselaer County village of Hoosick Falls. The agreement is the latest in a string of orders and lawsuits to hold the companies responsible for contaminating the village’s drinking water with PFOA.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week its strongest step toward the regulation of toxic compounds of national concern.

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has agreed to provide drinking water to about 1,000 properties in New Hampshire that showed elevated levels of toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions.

New York State has released a final plan for a permanent drinking water source in Hoosick Falls to address PFAS contamination in the Rensselaer County village’s water supply.

New York State has released a final plan for a permanent drinking water source in Hoosick Falls to address PFOA contamination detected in 2016 in the Rensselaer County village’s water supply.