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Environmental update: one new PFAS detect reported and new home‑gardening guidance released
Summary
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.
Andrew Shapiro, the town’s environmental contamination administrator, presented the Board of Health’s March data update on PFAS and related communications materials.
Shapiro said the department reported 10 new samples this month; ‘‘most importantly, we have a new detect just above the state standard on Cato Lane,’’ he said, and noted that all other samples in the reporting period were nondetect. He described the dataset as large and incremental and said the recent additions do not change the overall distribution of results.
Shapiro previewed two…
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