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DES: Saint-Gobain demolition nearly complete; agency seeks soil-distribution work plan for consent-decree area
Summary
DES reported demolition at the former Saint-Gobain facility is nearly finished and that corporate contractors have installed dozens of home water remedies; DES requested a work plan to characterize PFAS distribution in soils within the consent-decree boundary and flagged wider soil-management challenges.
At the Sept. 12, 2025 meeting of the Legislative Study Commission on the Environmental Health Effects of PFAS, a DES representative reported that demolition of the former Saint-Gobain facility is nearly complete and that company-funded clean-water remedies have advanced but that soil management and long-term groundwater monitoring remain major unresolved issues.
"The demolition of the former facility is nearly a 100% complete," the DES presenter said, and noted only a concrete slab remains while the company completes decommissioning work requiring railroad access. DES said Saint-Gobain is evaluating potential PFAS leaching from the remaining concrete using EPA leaching-test approaches and that results are expected in coming months.
DES summarized remedial and replacement-water work completed under the parties' consent decree and associated term-sheet attachments: contractors have installed approximately 748 point-of-entry treatment (POET) systems (707 of…
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