(File Photo of the Pittsburgh International Airport Airside Terminal)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) An environmental group called Three Rivers Waterkeeper is now worried after they recently found PFAS, which is better known as forever chemicals, in waterways around the Pittsburgh International Airport. Some of their data found levels there of 400 parts per trillion and EPA standards for drinking water are 4 parts per trillion. Three Rivers Waterkeeper also had reporting data from the airport in Pittsburgh which included discharges of more than 50,000 parts per trillion, and they even thought this was a typo. Since 2023, the group has been checking water around the region for forever chemicals and they found waterways near the Pittsburgh International Airport to be hot spots. According to Three Rivers Waterkeeper, one of the places that has forever chemicals is Montour Run. People are exposed to these forever chemicals because people are near the water of the Montour Trail and pets play in that water, which concerns that environmental group.