{"id":17881,"date":"2025-07-23T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17881\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:50:08","slug":"pfas-in-the-great-lakes-and-st-lawrence-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17881\/","title":{"rendered":"PFAS in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Master\u2019s student Ignacio Martin Ceballos has been working with Dorner\u2019s lab, the Industrial Chair on Drinking Water at Polytechnique, to compare PFAS in the raw source water to PFAS in treated drinking water in the Greater Montreal area.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which has not yet been peer reviewed, found that the St. Lawrence is contaminated with forever chemicals and that conventional water treatment isn\u2019t removing them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat comes in is what comes out,\u201d Dorner said.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s in line with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/services\/evaluating-existing-substances\/updated-draft-state-per-polyfluoroalkyl-substances-report.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a recent federal report<\/a> that concluded most PFAS is not removed by most conventional water treatment processes and requires advanced technology, such as granular activated carbon.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the PFAS levels Dorner\u2019s lab found in the raw water supply all met Health Canada\u2019s objectives. <\/p>\n<p>But as long as the chemicals continue to pollute the environment, there\u2019s a concern they will accumulate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are very persistent compounds,\u201d Dorner said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the focus can be put more on the upstream aspect of it, reduction at source \u2026 It\u2019s better for everyone downstream.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Master\u2019s student Ignacio Martin Ceballos has been working with Dorner\u2019s lab, the Industrial Chair on Drinking Water at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-17881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}