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POWNAL â Hoped-for personal outreach to town residents and public information sessions havenât been possible because of the COVID-19 epidemic, but state environmental officials last week updated the Select Board on a study of drinking water options for North Pownal village.
Department of Environmental Conservation hydrologist Grahame Bradley and Trish Coppolino, DEC Environmental Program manager, discussed a draft study report last week and the next steps in the process.
The options for providing safe drinking water in the village include continued on-site filtering of private wells found to be contaminated with industrial chemicals; drilling new, deeper wells with tightly sealed casings; creation of a new North Pownal water system, and connecting to another public water system.