Do you care about toxic chemicals leaking into your drinking water? If so, you\u2019ll have an opportunity to make your voice heard as New York\u2019s Department of Environmental Conservation rolls out a new virtual public meeting series on PFAS, often called \u201cforever chemicals.\u201d The meetings come after Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s 2026 State of the State directed DEC to draft new rules that would require landfills to treat leachate for harmful contaminants before it is sent to wastewater plants, with funding proposed to help local governments comply.<\/p>\n
PFAS has already become a familiar issue in parts of Ulster County. In Woodstock, town officials have reported PFOS and PFOA detections in one wellfield<\/a>, with spring 2025 test results showing PFOS at 3.67 parts per trillion and PFOA at 2.06 parts per trillion in a well serving part of the system. In Hurley, the closed town landfill has been a flashpoint over contaminated leachate<\/a>, and was declared a state Superfund site. The city of Kingston at one point stopped accepting Hurley leachate because of PFOS and PFOA concerns. A broader debate has also been playing out over how landfill liquids are handled in the county, including leachate that has been trucked to Kingston\u2019s wastewater treatment plant<\/a>.<\/p>\n DEC\u2019s information sessions on the proposed landfill leachate rulemaking are scheduled for Tuesday, January 27, 2026 at 2:30 p.m. and Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 2 p.m., both online. Another virtual public session, \u201cA Decade of Progress on PFAS and Beyond,\u201d is set for Thursday, January 29 at 2 p.m., and a separate stakeholder webinar on PFAS in biosolids is scheduled for Wednesday, February 4 at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do you care about toxic chemicals leaking into your drinking water? If so, you\u2019ll have an opportunity to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-107738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}