St. Cloud PFAS pilot finds success in destroying more than 99 percent of forever chemicals
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PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” were once thought of as impossible to remove from the environment.
They’re still seen as difficult and expensive to remove from wastewater, a common place for the PFAS to be found. A pilot project in St. Cloud tested a technology to do just that, and researchers found that the process they used destroyed more than 99 percent of the PFAS they tested.
Luke Langner, the public services director for the city of St. Cloud and Andy McCabe an environmental engineer with Barr Engineering who conducted the pilot, joined Minnesota Now to talk about the technology.
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