This announcement was issued yesterday by Cheltenham Township.

 On April 15, 2019 the PFAS Action Team meeting held a meeting at Abington Senior High School. Governor Tom Wolf created the PFAS Action Team in September 2018 to address PFAS contaminants across the commonwealth and protect Pennsylvania residents. 

At this meeting updates were presented from the Action Team and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) including Secretary Patrick McDonnell. The sampling plan was presented (see link below).

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Safe Drinking Water PFAS Sampling Plan 

The meeting included an opportunity for members of the public to provide comment in person. If you are interested in making a comment visit DEP’s eComment system.

More information on PFAS in Pennsylvania can be found here www.dep.pa.gov/pfcs.

Upcoming Meetings:

The Department of Health will hold a meeting April 29 in Horsham to discuss that analysis in more detail. More details to come.