can, because profits trump EVERYTHING.

Hope that they're doing okay. Thanks so much for posting this...

I live about 5-10 minutes away in Cornwall. Fortunately my water comes from well water.

It's funny that I learn these sorts of things first from DU and not the authorities.

Glad to know that you're not affected! I guess DU provides more than one helpful service and that it does pay to be an informed Democrat on the Internet!

Thanks for checking in! I hope that your neighbors are okay, as well.

I live just about 15 miles SE of Newburgh in Carmel, NY. I too, get my water from my well... but the aquifers are all connected and who knows what seeps in and from where.

Thanks so much for posting this.

Be well neighbors.

Now, we're being told: this problem has been going on for years.

I find DU provides more in-depth news than any other site...Hope everyone in Newburgh will be safe...we will be traveling through up-state New York in a few days...

Is there a 3M factory in the area?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanesulfonic_acid

I grew up there and have family in the Town of Newburgh (separate from the City of Newburgh). I wonder if this affecting private wells, too? Will pass this article on and tell them to get their well water tested immediately.

I'm 15 miles north of Newburgh.

Since New York has banned fracking, at least we don't have to wonder if it's one of those super-trade-secret toxins used in fracking. But although New York has banned fracking there's still the issue of disposal wells for fracking water. I know a lot of fracking waste water was being trucked across the Pennsylvania border into Ohio for disposal.

... because even though this is where I grew up, I had no idea where these lakes were. My parents' house (and their well) is less than a mile from one of the contaminated lakes (Washington Lake). My brother, lives right by Brown's Pond (where they're going to get water from for the time being).

These two water sources (the contaminated one and the emergency water source) are only a mile away from each other .... and the contaminated stream is less than a mile from Browns Pond.

I haven't lived in Newburgh for 30 years but my family has.

Wow I hope they find the source quick. Ecological destruction is a crime.