Promises & Outcomes (2019–2025)

What was promised, what appears in public documents, and how it affects water, notice, sludge, zoning, and flooding. Straightforward and neighbor-friendly.

Promises and outcomes

  • Public communication: residents were told to expect regular, easy-to-understand updates. In practice, notices have often been technical and irregular.
  • Fiscal planning: deeper review was discussed; budget documents do not yet list a funded PFAS treatment timeline.
  • Notices before risk: records reflect instances where notice arrived late or was hard to follow.

Short timeline

  • PFAS detections appear in state water reports for Montevallo.
  • Sludge handling raises concerns about movement of PFAS onto fields and into food pathways.
  • Construction and demolition decisions show gaps in proactive, plain-language notice.
  • Zoning and runoff issues relate to flooding worries downstream.

These points summarize documents reviewed by Dr. Rod Macpherson and public records. They are summaries, not legal findings.

The key question

Where is the public, dated, and funded plan for PFAS treatment, along with a monthly summary page that reports progress in plain language?

Prepared by Dr. Rod Macpherson. Sources available on request.