First PFAS Extraction Plant in Orange County History Begins Operations

The Orange County Water District and the City of Fullerton have begun operation of the Kimberly Well 1A PFAS Treatment Plant — Orange County’s first wellhead filtration treatment plant to remove perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) from local well water. Prolonged use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have led to them being detected in water sources throughout the United States, including at the Orange County Groundwater Basin. “OCWD cannot be prouder of our amazing staff that designed and deployed this state of the art PFAS treatment system in record time to combat the PFAS chemicals which were released into the environment by