PFAS Forever Chemicals Contamination in North Potomac, Montgomery County, Maryland: Attorney911 Pursues the AFFF Firefighting Foam Manufacturers Behind Contamination from a Closed Fire Training Academy, Chemicals That Persist and Bioaccumulate in the Body for Decades Linked to Cancer, Developmental Delays and Hormone Disruption, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Chemical Industry Claims Machine Values and Denies Toxic Exposure Cases, We Move to Secure Environmental Sampling Data, Private Well Test Results Within the One-Mile Exposure Zone and Manufacturer Internal Communications Before the County’s Testing Program Concludes, EPA Drinking Water Regulations and CERCLA Hazardous Substance Designation, Maryland’s Discovery Rule for Latent Disease and Its Recognized Medical Monitoring Cause of Action, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
What Happened in Your Neighborhood — and What It Means for Your Family You live near Great Seneca Highway and Key West Avenue. Maybe your kids waded in the stream that cuts through the subdivision. Maybe your dog drank from the stormwater pond at the end of the street. Maybe your kitchen faucet runs on a private well that draws from the same groundwater that moves beneath the old fire training academy — the one that closed more than ten years ago. And this week, you saw warning signs go up along the creek. A fence appeared around the pond. The county told you not to fish, not to swim, not to wade, not to let your pets near the water. Then you heard the words “forever chemicals” — PFAS — and you learned the contamination was detected in April, the source is firefighting foam, and the EPA says these compounds are linked to cancer, developmental delays in children, and hormone disruption. We are the trial team at Attorney911, and we build toxic-tort cases — cases where corporations put dangerous chemicals into the environment and then, too often, knew about the danger long before the people living in it did.…