PFAS leach into river from old textile mill ponds

KINGSTON - PFAS chemicals in textile mill waste ponds can continue to migrate into rivers decades after textile operations cease, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Rhode Island.

Research led by Jarod Snook, of the university's Graduate School of Oceanography, identified two historically-contaminated textile mill waste ponds as the source of the so-called "forever chemicals" entering the Pawcatuck River.