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PFAS in Water: What to Check in Maine

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01 · Your filing deadline

What is the deadline in Maine?

Maine has a 6-year statute of limitations for personal injury claims involving toxic substances — the most favorable in the nation for PFAS claimants. A lawyer can confirm yours.

6 years from discovery of injury and PFAS connection — unusually favorable

Deadlines vary; a lawyer can confirm yours. An older diagnosis or a past filing window does not, by itself, establish whether you have a claim.

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A lawyer can check which filing rules apply to your circumstances.

02 · Where cases are heard

Where would my case be heard?

Maine is at the epicenter of the national biosolids PFAS contamination crisis. Hundreds of Maine farms received PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge as fertilizer for decades. Private wells on Maine farms have tested at PFAS levels hundreds of times above EPA action levels. Maine has passed the nation's strongest biosolids PFAS laws and provides a model case for the emerging biosolids contamination sub-type of PFAS litigation.

Maine personal injury claims involving toxic substances are governed by Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 14 § 752, providing a 6-year limitations period — the most favorable in the nation for PFAS claimants, reflecting Maine's legislative recognition of the PFAS crisis. Maine also has military PFAS contamination at Bangor International Airport (Maine ANG 101st Air Refueling Wing) and the former Loring AFB in Limestone. The Stoneridge Farm case in Fairfield became a national reference point for biosolids PFAS contamination. Maine has banned the land application of PFAS-containing biosolids as of 2022.

How this works nationally

For the overall process and updates, read the PFAS in Water: What to Check overview. This page covers the local information available for Maine.

What happens when I check?

You answer a few short questions about what happened. If you send them, your answers are kept on file. If a participating law firm takes these cases, it may contact you. People's Justice is not a law firm.

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