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Airport says MassDEP visit cleared some questions; asks to re-sample older wells
Summary
Airport staff told commissioners MassDEP reviewed the airport's PFOS work, praised the lab method used and requested additional sampling for wells only sampled once; six homes had been supplied bottled water and three were recently connected to municipal water.
Nancy Smith, airport manager, told the Nantucket Memorial Airport Commission that state regulators had visited the airport and that the meeting produced clarified expectations but also a request for additional testing.
The airport's environmental consultant reported that MassDEP spoke positively about the airport's laboratory method, EPA Method 1633, which the consultant said "yields more analytes, and so it's more susceptible to that chemical fingerprinting." Smith said MassDEP had not understood that many wells had been sampled multiple times; MassDEP asked the airport to re-sample wells that had only been tested once, because "it has…
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