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Global distributions, source-type dependencies, and concentration ranges of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in groundwater
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A meta-analysis was conducted of published literature reporting concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in groundwater for sites distributed in 21 countries across the globe. Data for more than 35 PFAS were aggregated from 96 reports published from 1999 to 2021. The final data set comprised approximately 21,000 data points after removal of time-series and duplicate samples as well as non-detects. The reported concentrations ranged over many orders of magnitude, from ng/L to mg/L levels. Distinct differences in concentration ranges were observed between sites located within or near sources versus those that are not. Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), ranging from <0.03 ng/L to ~7 mg/L, and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), ranging from 0.01 ng/L to ~5 mg/L, were the two most reported PFAS. The highest PFAS concentration in groundwater was ~15 mg/L reported for the replacement-PFAS 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonate (6:2 FTS). Maximum reported groundwater concentrations for PFOA and PFOS were compared to concentrations reported for soils, surface waters, marine waters, and precipitation. Soil concentrations are generally significantly higher than those reported for the other media. This accrues to soil being the primary entry point for PFAS release into the environment for many sites, as well as the generally significantly greater retention capacity of soil compared to the other media. The presence of PFAS has been reported for all media in all regions tested including areas that are far removed from specific PFAS sources. This gives rise to the existence of a “background” concentration of PFAS that must be accounted for in both regional and site-specific risk assessments. The presence of this background is a reflection of the large-scale use of PFAS, their general recalcitrance, and the action of long-range transport processes that distribute PFAS across regional and global scales. This ubiquitous distribution has the potential to significantly impact the quality and availability of water resources in many regions. In addition, the pervasive presence of PFAS in the environment engenders concerns for impacts to ecosystem and human health.
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“These concentrations are several orders-of-magnitude lower than those for the primary source sites.”
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“The reported concentrations ranged over many orders of magnitude, from ng/L to mg/L levels.”
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“Approximately 40% of the data are reported for sites classified as primary-source sites (Table 2).”
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“The highest concentrations reported for the no-known-source sites are generally associated with metropolitan areas.”
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“The highest PFAS concentration in groundwater was ~15 mg/L reported for the replacement-PFAS 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonate (6:2 FTS).”
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“The median of the maximum concentrations reported for secondary-source sites are 95 and 96 ng/L for PFOS and PFOA, respectively.”
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“The maximum PFOA concentrations range from approximately 8.8 ng/L to ~0.6 mg/L, with a median of 569 ng/L.”
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“The concentrations are observed to exhibit a skewed distribution for the source sites, with one or two sites comprising the highest reported concentrations.”
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“Data reported for no-known-source sites comprise approximately 29% of the total.”
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“The weighted mean concentrations of PFOA and PFOS at primary source sites are 64,000 (±29000) ng/L and 93,000 (±27000) ng/L, respectively.”
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“More than half of these sites are identified as military installations or airports, primarily comprising AFFF-impacted sites.”
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“The aggregated surface-water studies used for the comparison of maximum PFOA and PFOS concentrations comprise a total of more than 1,700 sampling sites, with concentration data collected from >30 countries and regions.”
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“Conversely, they are 3 and 6 times lower, respectively, than those reported for the secondary source sites.”
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“The maximum concentrations of PFOS and PFOA in snow range from ~0.5–545 and ~20–66 ng/L, respectively.”
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“For example, the median values of the maximum groundwater concentrations are 30 and 15 ng/L for PFOS and PFOA, respectively, for no-known-source sites.”
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“The median values of the maximum concentrations are 0.2 and 0.3 ng/L, respectively, for PFOS and PFOA in the marine waters.”
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“The median values of the maximum PFOS and PFOA soil concentrations are 4,000,000 and 58,000 ng/kg, respectively, for the primary-source sites.”
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“The median values for PFOS and PFOA, respectively, are approximately 45,700 and 7,400 ng/L for groundwater and 22 and 570 ng/L for surface water.”
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“The median values of the maximum PFOS and PFOA soil concentrations for no-known-source sites are 2,700 and 3,100 ng/kg, respectively.”
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“The median of the maximum PFOS concentrations in rainwater is ~3 ng/L, with the maximums ranging from 0.1 to 50 ng/L.”
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“The reported concentrations of PFAS in groundwater ranged over many orders of magnitude, with the highest concentrations in part-per-million (ppm) levels.”
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“The results presented in this study demonstrate the widespread presence of PFAS in both groundwater and surface water.”
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“The no-known-source-site median values for PFOS and PFOA, respectively, are 30 and 15 ng/L for groundwater and 10 and 18 ng/L for surface water.”
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“The median values are ~3 and ~18 ng/L, respectively, for PFOS and PFOA in precipitation (combined rainwater and snow data).”
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“The presence of PFAS has been reported for all environmental media in all regions tested including areas that are far removed from specific PFAS sources.”
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“The median of the maximum PFOS concentrations is 0.2 ng/L, with the maximums ranging from 0.001 to ~760 ng/L.”
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“The median values for PFOS and PFOA, respectively, are approximately 45,700 and 7,400 ng/L for groundwater and 22 and 570 ng/L for surface water.”
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“Twenty studies were accessed that reported concentrations of PFAS in precipitation.”
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“As noted above, the concentrations reported for PFOS and PFOA in precipitation are in the ng/L range.”
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“The maximum PFOA concentrations range from 0.001 to ~1,600 ng/L, with a median of 0.3 ng/L.”
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“The PFOS and PFOA groundwater concentrations are three and one orders-of-magnitude higher, respectively, than those for surface water for the source sites.”
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“The distributions are approximately positively skewed, with the greatest number of concentrations within a range of 0.01–0.3 ng/L.”
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“Furthermore, groundwater is estimated to represent 26% of total water withdrawals for combined domestic, industrial, and irrigation uses (Margat and van der Gun, 2013).”
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- Not checked yetcites Margat and van der Gun, 2013
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“Many of these compounds, of which several thousand have been identified (OECD, 2018), are known to be environmentally persistent, bioaccumulative (especially long-chain homologues), and have potential deleterious toxicological impacts to a variety of organisms (e.g., Buck et al. 2011).”
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- Not checked yetcites OECD, 2018
- Not checked yetcites Buck et al. 2011 source
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“For example, groundwater is estimated to provide almost half of all drinking water worldwide (UNESCO, 2022).”
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- Not checked yetcites UNESCO, 2022
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“Hence, it is possible that some of the sites may have been impacted by sources either identified but located relatively far away or unidentified.”
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“The disparity between the two distributions reflects in part the nature of the sources, with AFFF-impacted sources comprising the great majority of primary source sites (Brusseau et al., 2020).”
§ Global Distributions, Source-Type Dependencies, and Concentration Ranges of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Groundwater > Comparison of PFAS Concentrations in Groundwater to Other Media > Soil
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- Not checked yetcites Brusseau et al., 2020 source
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“This result may in part reflect large-scale transport of PFOA throughout the hydrologic cycle.”
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“It is probable that PFAS present in marine systems experience greater magnitudes of dilution and dispersal compared to the other systems. In addition, the concentrations of PFAS entering marine systems are anticipated to be generally lower than inputs to other media.”
§ Global Distributions, Source-Type Dependencies, and Concentration Ranges of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Groundwater > Comparison of PFAS Concentrations in Groundwater to Other Media > Comparison of Concentrations
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“The delineation of no-known-source sites in particular may in some cases be nebulous”
§ Global Distributions, Source-Type Dependencies, and Concentration Ranges of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Groundwater > Conclusion
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Rests on an assumption: Many PFAS sources remain undiscovered.
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“The significantly higher concentrations observed for PFOS compared to PFOA for soil and groundwater is related to many of the primary-source sites comprising AFFF-impacted sites and that PFOS was a primary PFAS in AFFF.”
§ Global Distributions, Source-Type Dependencies, and Concentration Ranges of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Groundwater > Comparison of PFAS Concentrations in Groundwater to Other Media > Comparison of Concentrations
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“The presence of this background is a reflection of the large-scale use of PFAS, their general recalcitrance, and the action of long-range transport processes that distribute PFAS across regional and global scales.”
§ Global Distributions, Source-Type Dependencies, and Concentration Ranges of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Groundwater > Conclusion
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“For example, one source of PFAS release into marine waters is precipitation.”
§ Global Distributions, Source-Type Dependencies, and Concentration Ranges of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Groundwater > Comparison of PFAS Concentrations in Groundwater to Other Media > Comparison of Concentrations
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“The ubiquitous distribution of PFAS in the global hydrosphere poses a threat to drinking-water quality and water-resource sustainability.”
§ Global Distributions, Source-Type Dependencies, and Concentration Ranges of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Groundwater > Conclusion
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The authors state this as an assumption.
The reported PFAS concentrations represent total concentrations of individual PFAS.
“Thus, the reported concentrations are assumed to represent total concentration of the individual PFAS.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The source-type classifications provided by the original studies are accurate.
“The classification of the sites was based on information reported by the authors of the original studies.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Variations in sample processing, analysis methods, and detection limits across studies do not invalidate the aggregated comparisons.
“Sample processing and analysis methods varied somewhat across the studies, and the reported quantitative detection limits (LOQ) also varied among the studies.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Excluding non-detects does not bias the concentration distributions.
“Non-detects were not included in the analyses.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Many PFAS sources remain undiscovered.
“considering that it is quite likely that there are many PFAS sources yet to be discovered.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The U.S. EPA set a 70 ng/L lifetime health advisory for PFOS and PFOA in drinking water.
“These concentrations are below the EPA’s lifetime health advisory (LHA) of 70 ng/L”
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“Due to the extensive use and consequent discharge, PFAS have been identified in a range of environmental contexts, such as drinking water (7, 8), surface and groundwater (9, 10), soils (11, 12), wastewater (13, 14), landfills (15), remote areas (far from any local point sources, e.g., Arctic environment) (16, 17), and agricultural plants (18).”
From Toward the development of a molecular toolkit for the microbial remediation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (2024) · cites this paper as [9]
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“For example, Johnson et al.28 reviewed 96 studies for PFAS distribution in groundwater of which AFFF-impacted sites made up 32% of known sources, 18% in locations impacted by PFAS manufacturing and industrial activities, and only 3% for biosolid application sites.”
From Sources and Pathways of PFAS Occurrence in Water Sources: Relative Contribution of Land-Applied Biosolids in an Agricultural Dominated Watershed (2025) · cites this paper as [28]
In the citing paper
“Moreover, in the biosolid sites, only one study evaluated PFAS mobilization to drinking wells beyond the biosolid application site.”
From Sources and Pathways of PFAS Occurrence in Water Sources: Relative Contribution of Land-Applied Biosolids in an Agricultural Dominated Watershed (2025) · cites this paper as [28]
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§ Global Distributions, Source-Type Dependencies, and Concentration Ranges of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Groundwater > Abstract
“perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), ranging from 0.01 ng/L to ~5 mg/L”
§ Global Distributions, Source-Type Dependencies, and Concentration Ranges of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Groundwater > Comparison of PFAS Concentrations in Groundwater to Other Media > Groundwater
“The maximum concentrations range up to 9.7 (9.7×106 ng/L) and 6.6 mg/L (6.6×106 ng/L) for PFOS and PFOA, respectively.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Johnson, G. R., Brusseau, M. L., Carroll, K. C., Tick, G. R., & Duncan, C. M.
- Affiliations
- Portland State University (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- New Mexico State University (US)
- University of Alabama (US)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Corresponding author
- Johnson, Gwynn R.
- Brusseau, Mark L.
- Venue
- Science of The Total Environment
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-10
- Volume
- 841
- Pages
- 156602
- ISSN
- 0048-9697 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9653090
- OpenAlex
- W4281734724
- Semantic Scholar
- 297055efd066dd6b35a92142827bc86671991c5e
- Cited by
- 173
- References
- 105
- Citations by year
- 2026: 51 · 2025: 63 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 3
- FWCI
- 10.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/ (am, 251 d)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-017 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-037 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-012 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-029 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-004 (stm-asf)
- Locations
- The Science of The Total Environment (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- PDXScholar (Portland State University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (P42 ES04940)
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture (1023257)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Fluoride Effects and Removal
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Chemical Analysis and Environmental Impact
- Keywords
- per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, groundwater contamination, global distribution, perfluorooctanoic acid, PFOS, fluorotelomer sulfonates, background concentrations, long-range transport, soil contamination, water quality, risk assessment
- MeSH terms
- Fluorocarbons, Humans, Soil, Water Pollutants, Chemical, Alkanesulfonic Acids, Ecosystem, Groundwater
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