Lindsay Boone is a Technical Specialist with PACE Analytical. Her primary focus for the past several years has been on PFAS. She has worked with numerous drinking water and wastewater professionals on a wide array of PFAS related issues such as sampling techniques, lab report interpretation, and analytical methodology selection. Lindsay has worked at various environmental laboratories, life sciences, and analytical instrumentation manufacturer companies. She earned both her BS and MS degrees in chemistry at University of North Carolina Wilmington. In her free time she enjoys boating and hanging out on the beach with her friends, family, and Great Dane “Bo”.

The EPA’s Strategic Roadmap for PFAS outlines its intent and steps to pursue research, restrictions, and remediation of the ubiquitous compounds throughout our nation. Under restrictions the EPA will pursue a comprehensive approach to proactively prevent PFAS from entering air, land, and water at levels that can adversely impact human health and the environment.  Furthermore, the Roadmap states the EPA will Leverage National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting to reduce PFAS discharges to waterways.  We will look at how this will impact POTWS and what analytical testing regarding PFAS the EPA plans to require.  It is likely that EPA 1633 as well as EPA 1621 (Adsorbable Organic Fluorine) will be utilized.   Organic Fluorine methods though rarely utilized can render insightful data for Waste and Wastewater professionals as well as consultants running pilot studies on complex waste streams. A greater understanding of these potentially required methods will allow the end user the knowledge to better understand the meaning of the reported data.