In Delaware, some 200 sites have been identified as possible sources of PFAS, according to a new report from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit, which used EPA data on industrial facilities that “may be handling” the chemicals. The Delaware sites were among more than 120,000 nationwide to be identified.
Delaware businesses in the PEER report include Delaware Waste Management in Georgetown and Modular Carpet Recycling in New Castle.
Neither of those sites recorded any EPA violations but appeared in the EPA’s database as potential makers, users or shippers of PFAS materials because of the nature of the businesses, the agency said.