{"id":16515,"date":"2022-02-16T19:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T00:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/?p=16515"},"modified":"2022-02-16T20:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T01:25:37","slug":"december-2021-plymouth-board-of-health-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/december-2021-plymouth-board-of-health-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2021 Plymouth Board of Health presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16516\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16516\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Picture3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Picture3.png 292w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Picture3-101x133.png 101w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Picture3-114x150.png 114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CEC co-lead Laurel Schaider (Silent Spring) and Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition volunteer Betty Anne Bevis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, Laurel Schaider (CEC co-lead, Project 4) was invited to give a presentation to the Plymouth, MA, Board of Health, titled &#8220;PFAS: What are they and why are they a concern?&#8221; This presentation provided an overview of PFAS sources, exposures, and health effects, with a focus on Massachusetts drinking water supplies. The presentation also included key findings from STEEP\u2019s study of PFAS in Cape Cod private wells and resources for residents, including tips cards developed by STEEP\u2019s Research Translation Core. Public water supplies in Massachusetts are now required to test for PFAS after the state adopted a standard of 20 parts per trillion for the total of 6 PFAS compounds. PFAS have mostly not been detected in Plymouth public drinking water wells. Discussion topics after Dr. Schaider\u2019s presentation included sites of PFAS groundwater contamination in Plymouth and addressing PFAS in wastewater treatment plant discharges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/PACTVMAG-PLY-BOH-120821\">View the Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, Laurel Schaider (CEC co-lead, Project 4) was invited to give a presentation to the Plymouth, MA, Board of Health, titled &#8220;PFAS: What are they and why are they a concern?&#8221; This presentation provided an overview of PFAS sources, exposures, and health effects, with a focus on Massachusetts drinking water supplies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":16516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-winter-2022"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16573,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16515\/revisions\/16573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}