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City hires Hazen & Sawyer to study PFAS treatment after Royal Springs samples exceed EPA threshold
Summary
Georgetown Municipal selected Hazen & Sawyer to evaluate treatment options after UCMR‑5 sampling at Royal Springs showed PFOA/PFOS approach or exceed EPA limits; the firm will produce a feasibility and conceptual-design report by October to guide a compliance strategy and funding plan.
Georgetown City Council on March 23 approved a $231,000 agreement with Hazen & Sawyer to evaluate treatment options for PFAS — the class of compounds commonly called “forever chemicals” — after monitoring of the Royal Springs raw-water source registered detections that raise the utility’s running annual average toward the EPA’s 4 parts-per-trillion limit for PFOA and PFOS.
Cararissa Garland, communications director for Georgetown Municipal Water and Sewer Service (GMWSS), introduced the scope and said the assessment will measure current PFAS concentrations, model and pilot candidate treatment technologies and produce a conceptual design and cost estimate. “Treating PFAS is not optional — it is a regulatory requirement,” Garland told the council as Hazen & Sawyer’s project manager, Trey De Ro,…
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