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Hampden board discusses hooking nearby properties to water district amid PFAS concerns
Summary
Select Board members and water-district commissioners discussed connecting three nearby properties to the district main line to eliminate a small local well, citing earlier groundwater salt contamination and recent PFAS detections; commissioners said pumps and plumbing are nearing completion and a spring cutover is targeted, but testing and mapping remain.
The Town of Hampden Select Board and water-district commissioners on Feb. 3 discussed a plan to connect three nearby properties — the parsonage, Academy Hall storage location and an adjacent house — to the district main line, reducing reliance on a small local well and associated winter heating and maintenance costs.
Speaker 1, describing remediation work after a 2012–2014 DEP concern about salt leaching from a highway-department pile into groundwater, outlined past fixes including new surfacing, a salt shed and a drain pipe that routes runoff to the river. "We drilled a couple of wells ... and finally got to where it was causing a problem with neighborhood wells," Speaker 1 said, reviewing the town's history with the contamination and subsequent mitigation.
Commissioners at the meeting…
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