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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Does Your Community Water System Test For PFAS? Probably Not, Finds WXPR Investigation
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:05
	Publish Date:		2020-01-02 04:18:16
	Description:		Gary Laguna’s keyring jingles often as he sorts through the right key to the right door. He has to open them in a variety of places as the lead water operator in Hurley, Pence, and Iron Belt, three communities in Iron County. With 18 years of experience, Laguna is in charge of ensuring a reliable flow of water to customers’ faucets and doing near-constant water quality testing. While he plays a critical role in water customers’ lives, Laguna says many people don’t have a clear understanding of the workings of the systems he oversees. “There’s pumps out there somewhere. There’s wells that pump it, and it comes into the city through all of these pipes, and it ends up coming out of my faucet,” Laguna said. “But other than that, I would say the general populace may not know much more than that.” For example, many people wouldn’t know Hurley pumps none of its own water, instead buying it from the municipal grids of adjacent Ironwood, Mich. and Montreal, Wis. They wouldn’t know the
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