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Yarmouth selects letter to state urging expanded PFAS testing, asks DEP to sample shellfish
Summary
The Yarmouth Select Board voted to send a draft letter prepared by Kleinfelder to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection asking DEP to require further investigation of PFAS releases tied to the airport and the Firefighting Training Academy and to consider fish or shellfish tissue sampling in impacted waters.
The Yarmouth Select Board on Tuesday voted unanimously to send a draft letter, prepared by consulting firm Kleinfelder, to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection asking DEP to press for more investigation into PFAS contamination and to consider sampling fish and shellfish in waterways that may be impacted.
The letter, presented to the board by Nathan Stephens of Kleinfelder, says PFAS compounds have been detected in surface waters in Yarmouth and “appear to be related to either the Firefighting Training Academy and or the airport.” Stephens told the board the detection of airport-related PFAS in town waters indicates the airport has not completed delineation of impacts and that additional…
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