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When they bought their dream home, they didn’t know it was across from a toxic sewage sludge field.

The water looked clean and the farm across the road looked ordinary.     When Steve and Patty Wall bought their home in Alamance County, North Carolina, more than 40 years ago, they had no reason to believe the fields across from their property were being sprayed with toxic sewage sludge.       “I didn’t know any difference,” Steve says. “But if I knew, I wouldn’t have bought this property.”     Four decades later, after foul odors, rising contamination levels, and state warnings not to drink from their well, the property they spent a lifetime shaping has become a symbol of uncertainty and loss.

The sewage sludge field across from their Alamance County dream home.

What is sewage sludge? Biosolids, or “sludge,” is sewage waste that is often contaminated when it gets spread on farmland as fertilizer. Some of the toxic industrial chemicals in sludge include PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” which are known for not easily breaking down and persisting in our bodies, water, soil, crops and livestock.      EPA ignores science The Walls raised livestock, planted gardens, built barns and workshops, installed a swimming pool, and looked forward to growing old in their rural refuge. Now they know the land, water, and food produced on the property may all be contaminated.

Steve Wall worries whether it’s safe for his grandkids to swim in a pool filled by his well.

“I’ve probably been compromising the health of my family, friends, and neighbors with toxic chemicals,” he says.    As costs and concerns grow over PFAS-contaminated sludge, EPA is backing away from its own investigation into the serious risks it poses to people and the environment.  The agency's 272-page assessment found that PFAS in sewage sludge threatens people through contaminated food and water. Now it is replacing that analysis with a nine-page document that dismisses those findings.    You can tell EPA to change course: protect people, strengthen safeguards against PFAS pollution, and hold polluters accountable.  And learn more about why it's past time for EPA to put people first and confront the dangers of PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge on our Southern communities. No family should have to worry whether the land they love is making them sick.

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