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Candia conservation members push to test old town dump after consultant flags contaminants
Summary
Conservation members urged the Board of Selectmen to pursue testing of an old town dump as a brownfield; Stantec project manager David Allwine told the board monitoring has found arsenic, manganese and PFAS in some wells and advised the town to consult NH DES and Southern New Hampshire Planning about grant eligibility and next steps.
David Allwine, a Stantec project manager who said he has monitored the former town landfill for more than a decade, told the Board of Selectmen that prior work capped roughly 3,500–4,000 cubic yards of ash and that the site has continued groundwater monitoring under an NH DES groundwater management permit. "We do have groundwater impacts that we have found in there," Allwine said, listing arsenic, manganese and PFAS as contaminants detected in some monitoring wells, and noting surface-water samples taken from the nearby river have not shown significant results to date.
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