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“Hampstead officials have been monitoring unsafe levels of PFAS in the town’s well water for several years now, but soon hope to begin construction on a long-sought solution.
The Board of Public Works on Wednesday approved a $19.5 million appropriation for Hampstead, which is embarked on a $31 million project to build granular activated carbon filters around town that will remove the contaminant from the drinking water. The project also includes pipelines to deliver the water for treatment and the possibility of upgrading one filtering site to nitrate treatment in the future.
Hampstead Mayor Christopher Nevins, who attended Wednesday’s board meeting to support the appropriation, said engineering for the project is done and it’s time to start construction.” …