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County outlines PFAS cleanup plan at former fire training site, warns of multi‑million-dollar uncertainty
Summary
Barnesville County staff updated the finance committee on a Phase 2 investigation of PFAS contamination at a former municipal fire training site, a pilot permeable reactive barrier installed this fall, and wide-ranging cost uncertainty tied to remediation, long‑term operations and potential litigation.
Paul Rosala, assets and infrastructure manager for Barnesville County, told the Assembly of Delegates standing committee on finance that the county is proceeding under the Massachusetts Contingency Plan to investigate and remediate PFAS contamination at a former municipal fire training site. "We, being the property owner, are required to take on the remediation of the site," Rosala said, describing ongoing Phase 2 work, a groundwater model and ecological risk assessment that will be included in the Phase 2 report.
Rosala said consultant GZA has developed concentration maps and a groundwater model showing a plume moving southeast toward Mary Dunn Pond and identified links or separations between plumes originating on county property and nearby airport and municipal sources. "We're looking to determine what is ours and what is others," he said, noting fingerprinting of PFAS compounds is being used to help distinguish multiple…
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