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The Pocotaligo River in South Carolina has higher levels of forever chemicals than any other waterway in the U.S. Study: The prime suspect in the pollution is an aging wastewater treatment plant that serves the city of Sumter .
The next highest amounts exceeded 144 parts per trillion in North Carolina's Haw River and 117 parts in California 's Santa Ana River .
The Pocotaligo River had the highest levels in South Carolina of all types of forever chemicals recorded in rivers.
The presence of PFAS could chill efforts to establish such plants as groundwater supplies dwindle.
A water service provider in the Lowcountry backed away after learning of the PFAS contamination.
The EPA has sought to delay tougher standards for two of the most common types of forever chemcials.
It has scrapped plans to institute limits on at least three other types of PFAS in drinking water.
The alliance says the EPA should begin regulating PFAS as a class of toxic contaminants, as opposed to limits on individual types of chemicals.
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