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Water superintendent outlines drought limits, new hydraulic model and PFAS response
Summary
Nantucket Water Department Superintendent Mark Willett told the Planning Board the town is finalizing a hydraulic model to test impacts of larger subdivisions on its withdrawal permit, explained drought-triggered pumping limits set by MassDEP, and described plans for mobile PFAS treatment and a new deep well site.
Superintendent Mark Willett of the Nantucket Water Department updated the Planning Board on Tuesday on the town's withdrawal permit, drought restrictions and steps to respond to PFAS contamination.
Willett said the department is finalizing “a really pretty high-tech, very, very accurate hydraulic model of our system” that will let staff test how larger subdivisions or major commercial users would affect the town’s withdrawal permit. “When we get a larger subdivision — I’m not talking, you know, smaller cul de sac style…if it’s like Old South Road development or like a Tacoma Green development — I will be able to run that model and we can take a look at what that’s gonna mean to our permit, especially under these drought conditions,” Willett said.
Why it matters: Willett emphasized the distinction between groundwater level…
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