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Congressman Antonio Delgado (NY-19) sponsored the bill, which requires some companies to report their usage of PFAS to the EPA.

Since June 1, a half-dozen goats have been used to target and eat unwanted plants or brush that have overrun a waterway.

"When a water system is contaminated with PFAS, treatment will lower the concentration but not completely remove it. So the contamination is still there."

"It seems natural for us to do that, with the hydroelectric power generation that goes on here."

Typically the IJC is responsible for overseeing lakes and rivers bordered by the U.S. and Canada.

It’s been over three years since water fountains in some Ithaca area schools could offer students a drink. In 2015, water systems in all 12 Ithaca City Schools were shut off after tests showed elevated lead levels. However, within two weeks, the water will be turned on again at some elementary schools.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for the implementation of a law that would allow airports to stop using toxic chemicals that are said to poison local waterways.

By the time dawn’s first vermilion fingers tickle the east’s black sky, hunters in a dozen-plus marshes have slogged, sometimes chest-deep, through marshes to arrive at blinds – often constructed, sometimes mostly natural – to await the arrival of ducks, large and small, drab and bright, slow and fast.

"There’s been a long time passing without much information about what the remediation was," said Alan Karasin, treasurer of the PTA. "We would get periodic reports that things were being replaced but we didn’t exactly know what or when."