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Nantucket health officials, researcher say private wells show mixed PFAS results; town provides testing but will not reimburse
Summary
Health department and Dr. Laurel Shader reviewed municipal and private-well PFAS testing on Nantucket, reported follow-up sampling (~500 wells) with about 10% exceeding the state PFAS6 standard, and outlined testing options, filtration tradeoffs and local resources; town will not reimburse private-well testing.
Nantucket health officials and visiting researcher Dr. Laurel Shader told residents that testing has found both non-detect wells and some private wells with PFAS above Massachusetts' 20 parts-per-trillion combined PFAS6 benchmark.
Andrew Shapiro, environmental contamination administrator in the Nantucket Health Department, said the town does not plan to reimburse private-well testing. "No — we're not planning to reimburse," Shapiro told a resident who asked whether the town would pay for private-well PFAS testing.
Shader summarized local and state testing data: earlier state-supported sampling of 41 private wells found a highest reported value of 51 ppt and roughly 12% exceeded the Massachusetts PFAS6…
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