Documenting The Process

We’ll continue documenting any relevant updates here. We will also start an email list. Right now, there might already be efforts afoot to upgrade our filters that we don’t know about. Hopefully that is the case and we’ll go from there.

  • We didn’t know much, but we knew these filtration solutions exist, so we started calling around. We first tried reaching out to a couple of Board members for the Dept of Water in Paducah, and we also called the Water Department directly, asking for advice on how we might proceed to try and raise funds for a filtration system.

  • We decided to create this website to document the process of possibly getting funds for these industrial water filters that remove PFAS

  • Paducah Water returned our call to them and we helpful with some basic info. A representative there said that PW is in fact looking into filters that would retrofit onto our current system (vs replacing the whole system). We asked for more specifics and we were given a phone number with which to follow up for more specifics.

    We also asked about a timeline and where the money might come from but were not able to get definitive info on that.

    In summary, it sounds like Paducah Water is actively working on a solution, which is really good news.

    We plan to look into the technology and timeline. We asked if there was anything the citizens could do to help but they did not know at this time if or how we might help but they thanked us for reaching out we thanked them for communicating with us.

  • https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/ott/news_on_demand/local_news_on_demand/pfas-concerns-in-paducah-water/video_26acbf59-bb0f-5d9c-8c31-119c07d112c2.html

  • We spoke again with one of the directors at Paducah Water.

    The director was helpful and direct in answering questions. We confirmed that PW is in the design phase for a large “GAC” (granular activated carbon) filtration system.

    We expressed our two concerns about this plan: 1) that GACs do not filter our short chain PFAS, and 2) that the need to change these out on a continual basis is expensive in the long term.

    PW seems to be committed to going this route with the GAC. We were told by PW that the planning and design phase of this would be one year to 19 months long.

    The company doing the design and implementation is Calgon calgoncarbon.com

    We appreciate PW answering our questions. Because GACs are unable to capture all of the “forever chemicals” that most likely are in our water supply, we want to explore potential alternatives.

    We did ask PW if they were tapping into available state money for these filtration systems. The answer to that was “no”.