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You Just Found Out Your Water Has “Forever Chemicals” in It — Here Is What That Means and What You Can Do You live in Sioux Falls, or somewhere along the Big Sioux River between northeast South Dakota and the Iowa border. You drink the water. Maybe you have for years. Maybe your kids grew up on it. And now a study has confirmed what nobody told you: fifteen different types of PFAS — “forever chemicals” that do not break down in your body — have been sitting in that river, at concentrations that in some places reach twenty-five times what the federal government says is safe to drink. The highest readings are right here in Sioux Falls. One hotspot is at Falls Park, downtown, where families walk and children play near the water. The other is at the Sioux Falls Regional Airport — and that is not a coincidence. The airport shares its property with the South Dakota Air National Guard’s 114th Fighter Wing, and for decades, military and civilian firefighting operations at that dual-use facility used aqueous film-forming foam — AFFF — loaded with PFAS compounds. The foam was used in training, in emergency response, and in equipment…