Public concern about PFAS pollution often centres on drinking water, streams, rivers, and household exposure. This focus is understandable, but it can miss a key group: workers who disturb contaminated ground. On construction sites, soil, ‘made ground’, sediment, concrete dust, drainage material, and groundwater may all become sources of direct exposure. Where a site has…

The water source for Upper and Lower Heyford is a groundwater source drawn from Jurassic limestone aquifers, rather than a river or reservoir. In plain terms, rain falls on higher land, sinks through cracks, joints and porous layers in the rock, then moves through limestone beds until it reaches a spring, stream, or borehole. Thames…