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\"If there's an imminent hazard as we have been doing now for several years, any concentration at or above 90 nanograms per liter where we don't have a PRP or the PRP is unable or unwilling to do the work, MassDEP does step in, we will immediately provide bottled water followed by installation of a point of entry treatment system,\" John Ziegler (DEP staff) said on the call. He said the agency currently operates 59 such systems and typically operates them for about two years before turning them over.

Ziegler said MassDEP has recorded 191 PFAS notifications on its waste-site cleanup track and is working on public-facing tools, including a story map for private-well detections similar to an existing public-water-systems map. He also said DEP is close to issuing a CAM protocol tied to \"method 16 33\" (discussed on the call as the EPA Method 1633 protocol) and that the agency is researching whether septic systems may be contributing PFAS to groundwater.

MassDEP staff reminded boards of health and municipal stakeholders that the agency is a technical resource and that reporting private-well detections helps DEP's source-discovery work.

Separately, Kathy Kylie (DEP staff) is leading a foam take-back program for fire-fighting foam; DEP said municipalities can arrange pickups for 5-gallon pails or similar containers.

DEP also announced brownfields roundtables planned for Taunton, Billerica, Worcester, and Greenfield and encouraged municipalities and nonprofit clients to consider the Community Wide Assessment Grant program.

No votes or formal actions were recorded on PFAS or brownfields in the meeting.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","2025-03-20 BWSC Office Hours","oneSentenceSummary","MassDEP said it will provide bottled water and install point-of-entry treatment for private wells where PFAS concentrations meet the agency's imminent-hazard threshold (90 ng/L). The agency reported 191 PFAS notifications for waste-site cleanup and 59 installed treatment systems in its program.","taxTitle","Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Executive , Massachusetts","taxId",24971,"location","Massachusetts","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6099154,"MassDEP mails 74 annual certifications for active mitigation systems, asks owners to run shutdown-restart tests",134,935630,1069900,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2821139-cff90d378d5e5ad067bc6715f8061ea3&start=935&end=1069","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2821139-cff90d378d5e5ad067bc6715f8061ea3/thumbnail_935630.jpg","/articles/6099154/Massachusetts/MassDEP-mails-74-annual-certifications-for-active-mitigation-systems-asks-owners-to-run-shutdown-restart-tests","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6099154-a5b44daf2c3571c9c6e8639b26c37244/orig.mp4?Expires=1770914795&Signature=RoLhLRvfcfd3RDOMDFHk0bB96RO8y8gHrBQBWMJRDuzwYI8adMfMOXA2uLRpA3MttlCoTshei5~YaunWavalbDZ-GkmZuN4UPPAm2JhqQRRqqUFB-GIDahYKh6RlRvsdjJN0cqxlU39n1xpxtmWxXQWdmlOLD13t8bPGSkBRkQqJMEWCceH2cZkDvm7E6auS-uqrMAE77gKZycJZYjiHGhUZtRCqaLweAtIezU35T6aBXPu0wDO6tRa97sRNB-r-F3rYoVguzzUrKAiM3ov7-lo~p7cu9FibYbwtGqA9lvwfXwUVHJIBYjQsBJDJcYbJ~ntB2RZA--9MqVST3Ivm-g__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection told stakeholders it mailed 74 annual certification letters to property owners whose sites reached permanent solution status but rely on an active mitigation measure to keep vapor intrusion or other exposure pathways controlled.

\"Those annual certifications were dropped in the mail earlier this week,\" Brian (DEP staff) said on the call. He described the certification as a five-point statement the property owner must confirm, including that the mitigation system is operating, is understood by the owner, that the owner has financial resources to operate the system, and that DEP may inspect the system with reasonable notice.

Brian said DEP included a shutdown-restart test request in the letter under a 2024 MCP regulation: \"We wrote that into the letter again this year. So we're asking the property owners to do a shutdown restart test as part of the certification to show that the telemetry is working.\" He said the system telemetry is important because many systems have been in place since the APM regulation took effect in February 2014.

DEP said the certification responses will be posted to the data portal as they are received. The letters were sent to current property owners (the agency noted the property owner at the time of the mailing, not necessarily the party that filed the permanent solution). The letters are intended to confirm that active mitigation measures tied to Activity and Use Limitations (AULs) remain functional and monitored.

Stakeholders can look for the letters on the data portal and, where appropriate, notify property owners. Wendy (LSPA representative) and DEP agreed that DEP can provide a short compliance tip that stakeholder groups will distribute.

No formal votes were taken on this issue during the call.","MassDEP said it mailed 74 annual certification letters to property owners with active exposure-pathway mitigation measures and included a request for shutdown-restart tests under the 2024 MCP amendments to verify telemetry.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6099159,"MassDEP fixes searchable-sites bug that left regulatory-status field blank; data refresh slated Friday night",282,401560,684480,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2821139-cff90d378d5e5ad067bc6715f8061ea3&start=401&end=684","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2821139-cff90d378d5e5ad067bc6715f8061ea3/thumbnail_401560.jpg","/articles/6099159/Massachusetts/MassDEP-fixes-searchable-sites-bug-that-left-regulatory-status-field-blank-data-refresh-slated-Friday-night","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6099159-7e106ea3ec215523c1cc398022f9241f/orig.mp4?Expires=1770914795&Signature=OSFPBML0L2n1iQmypk2jr~n3zr~DZO1gQb8pKFnmpzOboEkGre2QKhiSjb2DihuJ6QV2SuMOsAcFkTYGeiONAgIdrjzckn~xMiFcISXH169ixCb2jVY4BPLQ5CJWesCKmmlWQIn78HvFWjKBqkg6NzHJ0Y30c0QQHMQ1OsF6VX0A-4QBFhUJPx9vOLLstGLZHWSnkC2GdHblacIUfGBub2MCoT7NoUYQOd0BK7~R6iD9LOZJvXUFO97N7ra73qOkCHzvxI677j-tOuhd4oQhTSRjC6mA9fS0udg9gIMAeQLRqcur7N3u15VEU6v5HyKOKfgzhmxKnR2TN-hVSOAIgw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection said it corrected a backend process that caused the site-cleanup data portal's \"regulatory status\" field to appear blank for much of the day and will perform a full data refresh beginning at 8 p.m. Friday.

The portal's regulatory-status field, which tracks where a Report Tracking Number (RTN) stands in the Massachusetts Contingency Plan process, was populating late in the day rather than updating continuously. \"The regulatory status was showing up blank. We identified the issue,\" Brian (DEP staff) said during the office-hours call. He said the agency worked with DEP's enterprise information office and EEA IT to implement a faster update process that will run daily.

Seldrin, who introduced themself as a liaison in DEP's enterprise information office, explained the technical change: \"Instead of dumping all the RTNs, recalculate the regular status, they were only adding the new ones. This way, you are significantly reducing the time from, like, 4 to 12 hours of recreating data to just under a couple of minutes.\" Seldrin said the new process should eliminate the blank-field issue and produce daily updates late in the day.

DEP said the full data refresh required to implement the new process will start Friday at 8 p.m.; Brian and Seldrin said they expect the refresh to finish by about noon on Saturday. \"We expect by 10AM on Saturday, everything should be back to normal,\" Seldrin said, while noting that the exact finish time can depend on available resources.

DEP asked users to report problems to the department's site-cleanup mailbox: bwc.edep@mass.gov. \"If you guys see issues on searchable sites, please feel free to, don't hesitate to send an email, to bwc.edep@mass.gov,\" Brian said.

The agency also said it will discuss a plan for earlier warning communications when outages occur and coordinate messages with stakeholder groups such as the Licensed Site Professionals Association. Wendy (LSPA representative) offered to distribute short notices to LSPA members if DEP provides a blurb.

DEP did not report any votes or formal actions related to this item during the call.","MassDEP said a technical change will make the data portal's regulatory-status field update daily after an automated process left the field blank for much of recent days. The agency plans a full data refresh beginning Friday at 8 p.m., expected to finish Saturday morning.","actionData","errors"]

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MassDEP: bottled water and point-of-entry systems offered for private wells at or above 90 ng/L; 59 systems installed

MassDEP mails 74 annual certifications for active mitigation systems, asks owners to run shutdown-restart tests

MassDEP fixes searchable-sites bug that left regulatory-status field blank; data refresh slated Friday night