PFAS Forever Chemicals in Fairfax County Drinking Water: Griffith Plant Samples Exceed EPA’s 2024 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, Serving One Million Residents From the Occoquan Reservoir — Attorney911 Pursues Fairfax Water and the Upstream Industrial Sources Behind the Contamination, We Secure the PFAS Monitoring Data and Internal Communications Before Retention Cycles Erase Them, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Toxic Exposure Cases, Virginia’s Pure Contributory Negligence Bar and Public Authority Immunity Demand a Trial Lawyer Who Has Fought These Battles, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Your Fairfax County Water Has PFAS in It — and the EPA Already Said No Amount Is Safe You are reading this because you live in Fairfax County, and someone you trust — your water utility — just told you that the water coming out of your tap contains chemicals the federal government linked to cancer, thyroid disease, and immune-system harm. You have been drinking that water. Your children have been drinking it. Maybe your parents have. And the utility’s general manager said you can be “confident in the quality of the water provided” — even as samples from the Griffith Treatment Plant exceeded the brand-new federal safety limits the EPA spent years writing. Here is the first thing you need to hear: the EPA set the health-based goal for these chemicals at zero. Not low. Zero. That is the federal government saying there is no amount of PFOA or PFOS in drinking water that carries no risk. The legal limit — four parts per trillion — is a compromise between that zero-health-goal and what is technically achievable. The Griffith Plant exceeded even that compromise number. So when someone tells you the levels are “only slightly above” the federal limit, remember what the limit itself was already a compromise from. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle toxic tort cases and the catastrophic injuries and wrongful deaths they cause. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national…