I-Team: 'Forever chemicals' found in rural Athens

By Johnny EdwardsPublished December 12, 2024 ATHENS, Ga. - It’s been a mystery for one Athens neighborhood for more than two decades: Why have so many of their family members and neighbors fallen sick with cancer? "We’ve always known that there was something wrong with the water – always," said Neffy Davis, who grew up among extended family on Pittard Road from the 1970s to the early 1990s. "Every home had some form of cancer." FULL STORY: https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/athens-residents-claimed-decades-were-being-poisoned-were-right