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“BENNINGTON – The State Department of Environmental Conservation has completed additional investigations regarding the impacts of PFAS (Per – and polyfluoroalkyl substances) on water supply wells in southern Bennington.
The DEC’s Sites Management Section has been testing well water in areas south of Route 9 in Bennington and also in southeastern Shaftsbury, in the vicinity of Lower East Road and Furnace Brook Road.
The testing was prompted in 2023 after random statewide testing of wells detected PFAS in an area of Bennington. The area was south of a contamination zone identified by the state after PFAS chemicals in hundreds of wells around two former factories was detected beginning in 2016.”…