The City of Sumter and Sumter County, SC have been reported by the National Waterkeeper Alliance to have alarming levels of PFAS chemicals in the Pocotaligo River. PFAS chemicals build up in the body and according to the Centers for Disease Control, may contribute to many health problems like cancer, reproductive and pregnancy-related illnesses like preeclampsia…the illness that has been linked to pregnancy . Some people fish from the water that is in the Sooks Branch. That’s the flowing water t