Maryland residents search for answers as community struggles to overcome PFAS contamination

Maryland residents search for answers as community struggles to overcome PFAS contamination

Rick Wawrzeniak is tired of worrying about “forever chemicals.” Since 2004, the 51-year-old has lived in a comfortable suburb of Salisbury, a city of about 33,000 people in Maryland’s Eastern Shore region, in the house where he and his wife raised their two sons. Wawrzeniak works as a police officer and recently completed a three-year stint as president of the neighborhood homeowners’ association. Long before testing alerted residents to alarmin…