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Board of Health asks for more timely beach and pond testing after lagging state reports
Summary
Members urged staff to request 2025 samples and quicker turnarounds after state recreational-water reports the board received included results from prior years; Common Pond recent enterococci result was recorded at 1.
The Town of Hubbardston Board of Health on May 14 discussed delays in publicly available recreational-water testing reports and asked staff to request a 2025 water test with faster reporting from the agency that provides results to the state.
Board members said the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s beach‑testing emails sometimes include results from the prior year and that they would prefer a 2025 sample with…
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