Water contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’ in North Bay falls between the cracks

Phil Arens spreads a stack of lab reports across his dining room table, jabbing at test results showing how heavily his well has been laced with “forever chemicals” seeping downhill from North Bay’s airport.

“It really bounces around,” says the plumbing contractor. “Here I am at 93, then 48, 11, 35, 31 – then there was 226. That was last August. It doesn’t make a lot of sense.”