{"id":26088,"date":"2022-04-08T09:05:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=26088"},"modified":"2022-04-08T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:51:39","slug":"macrae-talks-with-bangor-daily-about-pfas-in-landfills-and-wastewater-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2022\/04\/08\/macrae-talks-with-bangor-daily-about-pfas-in-landfills-and-wastewater-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"MacRae talks with Bangor Daily about PFAS in landfills and wastewater treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jean MacRae<\/a>, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at 91¸£Àû and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, recently spoke with the Bangor Daily News about two aspects of Maine\u2019s ongoing PFAS crisis: PFAS in landfill leachate<\/a>\u2014the liquid runoff from landfilled waste\u2014and in wastewater treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MacRae is part of a Mitchell Center team that is researching PFAS in Maine, including the environmental, economic and social aspects of various management options.<\/p>\n

Although PFAS can be removed from wastewater, or drinking water, these \u201cforever chemicals\u201d are very difficult to break down and must be disposed of.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issues with landfills are big because they\u2019re really the only way to deal with PFAS contamination once it happens,\u201d MacRae told the BDN. \u201cWater can be treated to get PFAS out \u2026 by passing it through an activated carbon charcoal filter. And if you do that, you\u2019ll stick the PFAS to the charcoal, but then you have contaminated charcoal. So where does that go?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at 91¸£Àû and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, recently spoke with the Bangor Daily News about two aspects of Maine\u2019s ongoing PFAS crisis: PFAS in landfill leachate\u2014the liquid runoff from landfilled waste\u2014and in wastewater treatment. MacRae is part of a Mitchell Center team that is researching PFAS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26088"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26207,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26088\/revisions\/26207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}