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Town updates Flint Road landfill closure and PFAS monitoring; permit response expected and borrowing authority in place
Summary
Consultants and town staff reported to the Board of Health on a MassDEP permit response for capping Flint Road landfill, PFAS surface‑water and groundwater monitoring, requests to reduce sampling frequency at some locations, and a plan to seek bids and proceed in spring; FINCOM approved borrowing up to $2 million for closure work.
The Town of Charlton received a status update on the Flint Road landfill closure plan and ongoing PFAS monitoring during the Jan. 7 Board of Health meeting, with town consultants reporting a MassDEP technical‑deficiency letter has been addressed and a permit decision expected in the spring.
Why it matters: The landfill closure and PFAS testing affect municipal obligations for groundwater and surface‑water monitoring, potential treatment or water provision to homes, long‑term monitoring costs and the schedule and financing for a capping project.
Consultant Gary Magnuson told the board the town submitted a permit application to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection for capping the landfill and has been responding to a technical‑deficiency letter from MassDEP. Magnuson said most questions were technical (for example, how to handle telephone poles near the cap) and that one concern—small amounts of landfill debris on an abutter’s property—will be handled using the abutter access agreement rather than requiring the abutter to join the town’s permit application.
Magnuson said the town should…
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