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The Google Earth map we created follows information shared by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Environmental Working Group, and various other sources. Additional information can often be found in pins on map. We hope you find this helpful.
Superfund sites can be found in Red in this image below.
Inactive Landfills can be found in Orange. The numbers by their pinpoints are a number that is provided to them from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC). The highest value in our area is a 79. This valve is at the Westchester Airport and we would think this is a contamination from Aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), which is what contaminated Newburgh, NY. Darren has not found out what these true values are, but based on the NYSDEC Inactive Landfill report, he has a guess that 79 is around 2,200 ppt PFAS. The 2024 PFAS regulation is less that 10 ppt. These are guess numbers from the NYS DEC report and the best way to find out what your water quality is, is to test your water for PFAS. A PFAS test needs to be performed by a state certified laboratory. Some municipalities are drilling new wells because the high PFAS levels.
Filter your water or your body becomes the filter.
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What do the colored pins and lines mean on the Google Earth map?
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Red are/were Superfund Sites.
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Orange are Registered Inactive Landfills in New York State.
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Yellow are in relation to North Carolina's Brunswick County - Chemours & the GenX issue/lawsuit. Please note, Palmer Plumbing LLC is not a licensed plumbing company in North Carolina.
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Blue are to assist customers outside of Palmer Plumbing's work area. We hope it helps distant neighbors understand what their/other governing agencies are saying about the PFAS contamination.
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Brown are Registered Inactive Landfills in Connecticut.
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Grey are Dams found on the CT Inactive Landfills Report in Connecticut. We are unsure of why there are shown in the inactive landfill map, but we marked the dams accordingly.
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Pink are in relation to Charleston, SC and their watershed/reservoir system.
We have not quite figured out how to share this interact map well. There is a lot of data that may need to be discussed with Darren. All of the data on the map does have links, but you may have to view the links in the side bar. We admit -- it is a bit confusing, but this is a very complex issue. Please do your own research. Information provided is general and may not apply to every situation. We are not liable for any damages resulting from reliance on this information.
There are roughly 160 registered inactive landfills in Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester County. These inactive landfills have varying levels of PFOA, PFOS and 1,4 Dioxane. These chemicals have been linked to numerous health side effects. Palmer Plumbing is determined to educate their family, friends and neighbors on their possible risk of prolonged exposure. The end goal is for our communities to be protected. We would love to provide the water treatment, but we would rather see a happy and health community than hoard this knowledge for profit.
Filter your water or your body becomes the filter.
Brewster & Carmel, NY
Brewster & Carmel, NY
Bedford & Pound Ridge, NY
Bedford & Pound Ridge, NY
Youtube videos regarding PFAS that we think everyone should watch:
Youtube videos regarding PFAS that we think everyone should watch:
Books & a Movie:
Books & a Movie:
Exposure
Exposure
1998: Rob Bilott is a young lawyer specializing in helping big corporations stay on the right side of environmental laws and regulations. Then he gets a phone call from a West Virginia farmer named Earl Tennant, who is convinced the creek on his property is being poisoned by runoff from a neighboring DuPont landfill, causing his cattle and the surrounding wildlife to die in hideous ways. Earl hasn’t even been able to get a water sample tested by any state or federal regulatory agency or find a local lawyer willing to take the case. As soon as they hear the name DuPont—the area’s largest employer—they shut him down.
Once Rob sees the thick, foamy water that bubbles into the creek, the gruesome effects it seems to have on livestock, and the disturbing frequency of cancer and other health problems in the area, he’s persuaded to fight against the type of corporation his firm routinely represents. After intense legal wrangling, Rob ultimately gains access to hundreds of thousands of pages of DuPont documents, some of them fifty years old, that reveal the company has been holding onto decades of studies proving the harmful effects of a chemical called PFOA, used in making Teflon. PFOA is often called a “forever chemical,” because once in the environment, it does not break down or degrade for millions of years, contaminating the planet forever. The case of one farmer soon spawns a class action suit on behalf of seventy thousand residents—and the shocking realization that virtually every person on the planet has been exposed to PFOA and carries the chemical in his or her blood.
What emerges is a riveting legal drama “in the grand tradition of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action” (Booklist, starred review) about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation; and one lawyer’s twenty-year struggle to expose the truth about this previously unknown—and still unregulated—chemical that we all have inside us.
Once Rob sees the thick, foamy water that bubbles into the creek, the gruesome effects it seems to have on livestock, and the disturbing frequency of cancer and other health problems in the area, he’s persuaded to fight against the type of corporation his firm routinely represents. After intense legal wrangling, Rob ultimately gains access to hundreds of thousands of pages of DuPont documents, some of them fifty years old, that reveal the company has been holding onto decades of studies proving the harmful effects of a chemical called PFOA, used in making Teflon. PFOA is often called a “forever chemical,” because once in the environment, it does not break down or degrade for millions of years, contaminating the planet forever. The case of one farmer soon spawns a class action suit on behalf of seventy thousand residents—and the shocking realization that virtually every person on the planet has been exposed to PFOA and carries the chemical in his or her blood.
What emerges is a riveting legal drama “in the grand tradition of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action” (Booklist, starred review) about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation; and one lawyer’s twenty-year struggle to expose the truth about this previously unknown—and still unregulated—chemical that we all have inside us.
Dark Waters
Dark Waters
Cincinnati, Ohio 1998: Up-and-coming corporate attorney Robert Bilott, a new partner at a prestigious law firm, is visited by one of his grandmother's neighbors from West Virginia. Angry farmer Wilbur O. Tennant asks him to sue chemical multinational DuPont. His cows, according to the accusation, are being poisoned by a nearby landfill. Such a mandate is actually out of the question for Bilott, because he normally represents corporations. When he drives to remote Parkersburg to see for himself, his mind changes abruptly. The lawyer sees shocking evidence of the poisoning of the cattle with his own eyes: black teeth, huge tumors and terrible deformities. With the backing of his law firm boss Tom Terp, he files a lawsuit and gains access to confidential company files. While DuPont routinely plays for time, Bilott uncovers a scandal that is also endangering the health of many people. Much to his wife's chagrin, the idealistic lawyer gets stuck in the case, putting his career and health at risk. And yet he doesn't give up.—ADR Das Erste
A Poison Like No Other
A Poison Like No Other
It's in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It's microplastic and it's everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming.In A Poison Like No Other, Matt Simon reveals a whole new dimension to the plastic crisis. Dealing with discarded plastic is bad enough, but when it starts to break down, the real trouble begins. The very thing that makes plastic so useful and ubiquitous—its toughness—means it never really goes away. It just gets smaller and smaller: eventually small enough to enter your lungs or be absorbed by crops or penetrate a fish's muscle tissue before it becomes dinner.Unlike other pollutants, microplastics represent a cocktail of toxicity: plastics contain at least 10,000 different chemicals. Those chemicals are linked to diseases from diabetes to hormone disruption to cancers.A Poison Like No Other is the first book to fully explore this public health threat. As Simon learns from these researchers, there is no easy fix. But we will never curb our plastic addiction until we begin to recognize the invisible particles all around us.
PFAS in the Water?
PFAS in the Water?
PFAS can be found in Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF). AFFF was commonly used to extinguish fire. The Department of Defense (DOD) is trying to move away from the use of AFFF. The EPA did not know that PFAS exposure resulted in negative health side effects until the early 2000s (SC lawsuit). It wasn't until the fire in the USS Forrestal (1967), that the US Military started to really use AFFF. For over forty years, solders and neighboring communities have been exposed to PFAS. "DOD uses AFFF in about 1,500 facilities and over 6,800 mobile assets worldwide to suppress fires. Release of AFFF into the environment, either through accidental releases, or for fire training and emergency use, has resulted in PFAS detections in drinking water and groundwater in and around DOD installations." - Source The use of AFFF has lead to many areas having a PFAS contamination. It is unknown what levels were prior to testing for PFAS, but we have all had some level of exposure. Prior to 2012, there was no monitoring. Regulation on PFOA & PFOS did not begin until 2016. In 2024, regulations strengthened to include six PFAS (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, PFBS, and HFPO-DA).
What are safe levels of PFAS?
What are safe levels of PFAS?
There are no safe levels of this man-made chemical • avoid ingesting. One of the easiest ways to lower your risk of exposure is to properly filter your drinking and cooking water and lessen consumption of PFAS contaminated foods.
The EPA regulates municipal water.
The FDA regulates bottled water.
Private wells are the responsibility of the home owner.
New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) recommends testing one's well every 2 - 5 years.
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