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PFAS contamination at landfill area spurs testing, debate over Solid Waste Committee role
Summary
Select Board and residents discussed high PFAS results near the town landfill and Crane/Cray Neck wetlands; DES and Ares Engineering are involved in monitoring, and the board questioned the Solid Waste Committee's process and asked it to refocus while Ares completes a feasibility study.
The Select Board discussed contamination monitoring near the town’s landfill and adjacent Crane/Cray Neck wetlands after a Solid Waste Committee report raised alarm about elevated PFAS levels and whether the town’s monitoring program was sufficiently broad.
Resident and Planning Board member Megan (last name in public record) told the board she had consulted the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services and cited DES staff describing elevated PFAS at monitoring wells around the landfill. “When I read that report, it was alarming. The numbers are alarming,” she told the board, adding DES had indicated the state might expand the groundwater monitoring boundary if nearby private wells or surface water tests showed comparable levels.
DES’s project manager for the site, the…
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