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Residents tell council contaminated wells and bottled-water reliance demand city partnership for funded water project
Summary
Multiple Greenfield residents told the City Council they have unsafe private well water with high nitrate and 1,2,3-TCP levels and asked the city to partner on a fully funded water project; speakers said the community has organized for two years and asked for inclusion in a "Walnut Avenue" water project proposal.
Several Greenfield residents told the City Council during public comment that private wells outside city limits are contaminated with nitrates and 1,2,3-trichloropropane (1,2,3-TCP), leaving households reliant on bottled water and shared tap deliveries.
"Clean water is not a luxury, but a necessity and a fundamental human right," said Rosari Guzman, a Greenfield resident who said her father’s well on Fourteenth Street tested in late 2023 with high levels of nitrate and 1,2,3-TCP and subsequently went dry. "We…
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