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Mass. DEP highlights PFAS response, brownfields projects and grants at virtual coffee hour
Summary
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection staff reviewed FY25 cleanup work — including PFAS responses at private wells, brownfields redevelopment, audits and grant programs — and urged LSPs and consultants to share barriers to housing redevelopment linked to site cleanup.
Assistant Commissioner Millie Garcia Serrano opened a virtual Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) coffee hour on Sept. 21, 2025, summarizing the agency's Fiscal Year 2025 cleanup work and priorities, with an emphasis on PFAS response, brownfields redevelopment and funding programs.
The session matters because MassDEP's cleanup decisions affect drinking-water protections, redevelopment opportunities and state and federal funding priorities. Staff described recent on-the-ground actions, regulatory coordination on PFAS, and requests for technical input from licensed site professionals to ease housing redevelopment where environmental obstacles remain.
MassDEP staff said the bureau supported dozens of PFAS responses across the state in FY25. "Through your diligent work, we've been able to eliminate PFAS hazards at 76 private wells," Millie Garcia Serrano said, adding that immediate response steps included bottled water and installation of sampling/access ports where concentrations met the response threshold described in MassDEP guidance. PFAS…
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