Vote YES on Article 14 | PFAS Chemicals in Duxbury Water: What You Need to Know

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Download PDF PFAS Chemicals in Duxbury Water: What you need to know (Vote “Yes” on Article 14 to approve PFAS Monitoring & Sampling at Town Transfer Station) What are PFAS? PFAS stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances–sometimes called “forever chemicals”–which are a group of man-made chemicals that have been widely used in many industrial and […]

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Town engineering firm reports contaminants from McNeil Dump and Duxbury Landfill are in the groundwater and are impacting public drinking water sources

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Duxbury Resident James Begley shared the following professional review of the Landfill Assessment Report for the Former Duxbury Landfill/McNeil Dump and Duxbury Municipal Landfill prepared by Weston & Sampson. Mr. Begley is a certified Licensed Site Professional with an expertise in water quality, and has presented to Duxbury’s Selectboard on PFAS contaminants this past year.

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ADD YOUR NAME! Tell the EPA: Designate PFAS as hazardous under Superfund Law

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Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” are polluting our environment. It’s time to clean them up. Duxbury Safe Water is requesting your support of the EPA’s docket as described below. Submit your public comment before the Nov. 7 deadline. Add Your Name Take Action! Visit the link below to support the EPA’s proposed rule under Superfund Law:

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Do you have a private well? If so, you need to test your water for PFAS and other contaminants.

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Download the Duxbury Potable Well List Please note this list was produced by the Town of Duxbury and may be incomplete. Please notify the Town if you do have a potable well and you are not listed. Where you see a “T” noted on a line item indicates change from private well to Town water.

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Update Regarding Groundwater Sampling at the Duxbury Landfill and McNeil Dump Site

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As part of assessment activities associated with the Duxbury Landfill and McNeil Dump site on Mayflower Street, test-pitting, groundwater well installation and sampling, and soil gas sampling activities were conducted to assess the McNeil Dump site. These activities were conducted from May through July, 2022. Of the groundwater samples collected from four monitoring wells installed,

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