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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2022 Jun 9;841:156602. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156602

Table 3.

Mean, minimum, and maximum reported PFAS concentrations.

PFAS # Well Locations Concentration Range (ng/L)
Min or LOQa Maximum Mean
Reported Reference Arithmetic 95%CIb
PFPrA 12 5.1 18,000 Martin et al., 2019 2200 2900
PFBA 1298 0.004 87,000 Houtz et al., 2013 1400 430
PFPeA 1578 0.0211 300,000 Nickerson et al., 2021 3700 1400
PFHxA 1695 0.02 875,000 GHD, 2018 8100 2900
PFHpA 1695 0.02 206,000 ATSDR, 2005 1400 520
PFOA 2199 0.028 6,570,000 Moody and Field, 1999 15000 12000
PFNA 1507 0.02 66,700 McGuire et al., 2014 160 120
PFDA 1426 0.0096 143,040 McGuire et al., 2014 160 250
PFUnA 789 0.0024 760 EA, 2020 3.4 1.5
PFDoDA 769 0.019 1,040 EA, 2020 2.1 0.4
PFTriA 404 0.015 7.0 Propp et al., 2021 1.4 0.5
PFTeA 593 0.020 4,000 EA, 2020 1.2 0.4
PFHxDA 431 0.005 8.9 Wang et al., 2022 1.3 0.1
PFOcDA 430 0.02 2.92 Wang et al., 2022 0.1 0.1
PFPrS 77 0.009 176,000 Nickerson et al., 2021 22000 14000
PFBS 1555 0.01 822,000 GHD, 2018 4900 2300
PFPeS 165 0.2 374,000 GHD, 2018 25000 14000
PFHxS 1674 0.01 2,380,000 GHD, 2018 20000 7800
PFHpS 272 0.022 66,700 GHD, 2018 2600 1100
PFOS 2046 0.01 4,600,000 Nickerson et al., 2021 21000 11000
PFOSA 382 0.004 22,000 Nickerson et al., 2021 293 232
PFNS 72 2 20,000 Nickerson et al., 2021 1800 1400
PFDS 509 0.005 23,800 Anderson et al., 2016 56 99
4:2 FTS 84 0.38 12,000 Nickerson et al., 2021 1600 1000
6:2 FTS 605 0.06 14,600,000 Moody and Field, 1999 56000 58000
8:2 FTS 281 0.25 98,000 Nickerson et al., 2021 1600 1200
GenX 1291 0.060 4,000 Roostaei et al., 2021 440 84
a

Reported minimum equal to limit of quantification (LOQ); cells shaded in blue

b

95% Confidence Interval (CI)