Environmental update: one new PFAS detect reported and new home‑gardening guidance released

Mar 20, 2026

The Board of Health received its monthly contamination update: most recent sampling produced one new sample just above the state standard on Cato Lane, while most other samples were nondetect; staff previewed two new fact sheets on PFAS health effects and home gardening guidance and said routine soil or irrigation testing is not currently recommended.

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Andrew Shapiro, the town’s environmental contamination administrator, presented the Board of Health’s March data update on PFAS and related communications materials.

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