A total of $223,079 in state grant funding is headed to four Franklin County and North Quabbin towns to help filter potentially harmful chemicals from their water systems.The Healey-Driscoll administration and the state Department of Environmental.
TURNERS FALLS Three local legislators are imploring FirstLight Hydro Generating Co. to “do better” after failing pistons at the Turners Falls dam allowed oil to leak into the Connecticut River earlier this month.The leak, reported to FirstLight by.
The regulations would limit the two most common PFAS chemicals PFOA and PFOS to four parts per trillion; and also limit any mixture containing one or more of the PFAS chemicals known as PFNA, PFHxS, PFBS, and/or GenX.
West Tisbury has been identified by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) as a “potentially responsible party” for the release of per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), according to town administrator Jennifer Rand. At Wednesday’s West Tisbury select board meeting, Rand said the property at or near 551 Edgartown Road, where the West Tisbury Fire […]
The penalty is part of a settlement between MassDEP and the city, after a Feb. 6 mechanical failure of one of the four pumps flooded the pumping station and caused an electrical failure of the statio…