Reducing environmental exposures for Mainers throughout their lifetimes.
Island Institute and Maine Seacoast Mission have committed to helping us reach people on Maine’s unbridged islands to test their drinking water and help with decisions about the next steps necessary to mitigate contamination.
Initial conversations with people on several islands about the project have revealed broad interest in well water testing. Maine Seacoast Mission’s Director of Island Services, Douglas Cornman, is working with us to identify a strategy for communication, island visits, and water sample collection. Island Institute has awarded us an Island Institute Fellow over the next two years to help facilitate this effort: Morgan Karns, a recent graduate of Virginia Tech. The Maine Seacoast Mission will work closely with our Island Institute Fellow to ensure she connects with each island community starting in Fall 2023. We have recently received another five years of support from the NIH SEPA program for our school-based project, and our Island Institute Fellow will also forge intergenerational relationships between island school children and their elders to ensure healthy drinking water for all island communities. The project will pilot PFAS testing in communities with identified risks. Learn more about project expansion on our PFAS in drinking water page.
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