Shoreham farmer tells committee manure pit overflow and AgriMark discharge raised PFAS and contamination concerns

Erica Langston, co-owner of Merriweather Meadows Farm in Shoreham, told a legislative committee that repeated manure from a neighboring dairy has flowed onto her property, and she warned that wastewater from an AgriMark processing facility, discharged into the neighbor’s manure pit, raises concerns about PFAS and long-term contamination.

Langston described finding "puddles of manure in low spots of our land filled with foam and, shiny, glistening water," and said the neighbor had spread manure within about 60 feet of her well and that manure from a pit roughly 600 feet from the center of a field had reached her land. "We have spoken to the farmer about this at different times," she said, and when state investigators first visited they found "no freeboard left in that manure pit" but ultimately…