By Chris Hubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking local wastewater treatment plants to begin testing for hazardous industrial chemicals.

The agency sent a letter Monday to 125 municipal utilities encouraging them to begin sampling of water flowing into and out of the plants for highly fluorinated compounds known as PFAS, in an effort to understand how and where the chemicals find their way into drinking water.

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