BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 1, 2021
When a “do not eat” advisory was issued last week for deer killed in Fairfield, Alex Poulin was not the least bit surprised. Poulin has extended family in the Somerset County town, where the presence of PFAS in well water — resulting from the use of waste sludge on farm fields — was discovered in September 2020 by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Last week’s revelation that high levels of PFAS were found in Fairfield deer dealt a blow to Poulin, who has hunted local deer to provide healthy food for his family only to find out they were tainted by so-called forever chemicals.