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Neighbor says golf course well tested positive for multiple PFAS; asks board to place review on next agenda
Summary
At Monday's Rockbridge County Board of Supervisors meeting, resident Deborah Woodcock said groundwater testing near the Washington and Lee Golf Course detected 11 PFAS compounds in one well and asked the board to add the results and a possible herbicide application to the next agenda.
Deborah Woodcock, a Buffalo Magisterial District resident, told the Rockbridge County Board of Supervisors on Aug. 11 that recently released test results show one well near the Washington and Lee Golf Course tested positive for 11 PFAS compounds and that some results "are reading at very high levels." She asked the board to place the matter on the next meeting agenda for fuller review.
Woodcock said contaminants that enter groundwater "often stay there" and named Wood Creek and the Maury River as water bodies of…
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