"A PFAS contamination crisis is continuing to plague a Maryland community as a plume of contaminated groundwater moves through the area, residents and their attorneys said this week.
Even with actions by Perdue Agribusiness to address the contamination, PFAS chemicals from the company’s soybean plant in Salisbury, MD continue polluting local surface waters, soil and drinking water in wells beyond those Perdue has tested, they say. Concerns were aired Nov. 12 in a town hall meeting, as community members continued to push for protective actions.
“In November, where we are right now, there’s no evidence that Perdue is taking any action at all to basically contain what is happening on their site,” Chase Brockstedt, an attorney who is representing residents of the Eastern Shore city in a class action lawsuit against Perdue, said at the town hall Wednesday night.
Wastewater-containing lagoons at the Perdue plant are leaking, while discharge from the facility continues to enter local streams and toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in excavated soil leaches into local groundwater, according to Brockstedt."
Shannon Kelleher reports for The New Lede November 14, 2025.
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