A contractor in Buffalo, New York, is dead after falling into a well at the wastewater treatment plant on Bird Island, according to the Associated Press.
The well the worker fell into empties into the Niagara River, and rescue personnel worked overnight to find the man’s body.
Buffalo Fire Commissioner tells WGRZ News that the worker wasn’t tethered to anything when he fell.
NPR Story Covers COVID-19 Testing on College Campuses
A recent feature story on NPR takes an in-depth look at COVID-19 testing on college campuses nationwide, highlighting a few specific programs, including one at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The story — titled “Colleges Turn To Wastewater Testing In An Effort To Flush Out The Coronavirus” — profiles the people on campuses doing the work to collect samples for testing, and it features some pretty good photography.
EWG Study Claims 60% of Americans Have PFAS in Drinking Water
In other news, a peer-reviewed study by Environmental Working Group scientists was published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters that shows more than 200 million Americans, or roughly 60% of the U.S. population, could have per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their drinking water.
“We know drinking water is a major source of exposure of these toxic chemicals,” says Olga Naidenko, vice president for science investigations at EWG and a co-author of the new study. “This new paper shows that PFAS pollution is affecting even more Americans than we previously estimated. PFAS are likely detectable in all major water supplies in the U.S., almost certainly in all that use surface water.”
