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County schedules PFAS monitoring near wastewater site; facility moves and dispatch updates reported
Summary
County staff reported PFAS detections near a wastewater treatment facility and described plans to dig test pits and install monitoring wells in the second week of May; department heads also updated the board on building move-ins, dispatch assistance and lift-station work.
Rockingham County officials told the Board of Commissioners on April 23 that PFAS had been detected near a wastewater treatment facility and that monitoring and investigation work is scheduled to begin in the second week of May.
County staff said crews will dig test pits and install additional monitoring wells to scope the presence of PFAS; the county is following state guidance on sampling and monitoring. As part of a phased approach, the county will repurpose an older well as a monitoring well once a newly commissioned well has been online for six months, per remarks on the record.
Department heads also reported on building occupancy progress for a new county facility, noting the sheriff’s department would occupy one of the spaces and that card access had been activated for diversion operations; lift stations at North Road and the jail were described as nearly complete and final programming work was underway.
The board heard that dispatch staff provided detail support to Portsmouth and that county staff planned an in-person Eversource meeting related to electricity rates. The county described PFAS follow-up as the initial step in a longer technical process; further sampling and monitoring were described as contingent on initial findings and state direction.
The county did not present laboratory reports or an external timeline at the meeting; the transcript records the planning steps and intent to proceed with monitoring work.
