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PFAS “Forever Chemicals” in Akron, Ohio: What the Science Says, What the Law Allows, and What to Do If You Are Worried You just learned that “forever chemicals” are in the soil and water around Summit County, and a question landed in your chest that will not leave: am I exposed, is my family exposed, and what does that mean for the diseases I already have — or the ones I fear are coming? That is the right question, and you deserve a straight answer before anyone asks you to sign anything. Here is the first piece of good news: Akron’s municipal drinking water, drawn from Lake Rockwell and the Upper Cuyahoga River reservoirs through more than 18,000 acres of protected watershed that the city owns and controls, has been assessed as low risk for PFAS contamination based on EPA sampling. That is not a marketing line from the water bureau — it is a finding from independent analysis of federal sampling data, and it matters. But “low risk in the municipal water” is not the same as “no exposure,” because PFAS are nearly everywhere, and the roads to exposure do not all run through the tap. We are Attorney911…