This is one profile in “Faces of PFAS,” a report on Michigan residents confronting contamination as evidence mounts of the toxins’ dangers.
Sagan and Sally Chandler knew for years that a 1,4 dioxane plume was moving toward the Huron River. While that contaminant still hadn’t reached the source of 85 percent of Ann Arbor’s drinking water, city residents learned in 2018 that PFAS was a looming concern.
Sagan and Chandler looked at the city’s PFAS updates on its webpage, which it created in late 2018 as residents sought answers for the contamination first identified in 2016.
The couple discussed options, and decided to take their own action, even amid assurances that city officials were monitoring and attempting to reduce the toxins. The total PFAS peak reached 88 parts per trillion for the city of about 100,000.
They bought their own in-home water filter.
“We figured, at this point, it’s just better to take matters into our own hands,” Sagan said. “If it’s something that involves our health, we need to be proactive.”
Ann Arbor’s PFOA and PFOS once were higher than what the state now proposes as a maximum contaminant level, and while those two chemicals now appear to be mostly in check, the levels of overall PFAS is fluctuating despite aggressive filtering. The state found a source of PFAS upstream in Oakland County, a metal plater in Wixom, but the contamination continues to wend down the river.
As Sagan learned about PFAS, he saw its links to thyroid disease. That hit close to home, he said, as he recovered from thyroid cancer over the last summer.
The pair called Culligan, one of a handful of NSF-certified water system providers, in September. They chose a point-of-use reverse osmosis system. Within weeks, they were adapting to their new system of using one sink in their northeast Ann Arbor home for all drinking water.
Sagan describes himself as “a little mad” that the couple had to spend over $1,000 to feel safer about their water.
“You just assume the city is doing its job and giving you drinkable water,” Sagan said. “You just can’t make that assumption anymore. Maybe you never could.”
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