Two Texas farm families have seen their health decline, their pets and livestock sickened and killed, their water poisoned and and their property values wiped out due to high levels of chemical contamination linked to a company marketing treated sewage sludge as a fertilizer and soil conditioner, according to a lawsuit filed by the families.
In their lawsuit, the Texas farm families allege that after the fertilizer was applied to their neighbor’s land, soil and water testing discovered exceedingly high levels of PFAS contaminating the farms. The drinking well on one of the farms found PFAS at 90.9 parts per trillion, while the drinking water on the other farm found PFAS at 268.2 ppt, according to the Washington, D.C-based watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Such levels are much higher than levels that concern US regulators.