BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) - The results of tests for potentially cancer-causing chemicals at a closed Brattleboro landfill aren’t expected to hinder the construction of a solar array.
Windham Solid Waste Management District Executive Director Bob Spencer tells The Brattleboro Reformer (https://bit.ly/2j9t5Ln ) two monitoring wells at the capped landfill “were below even the minimum standards.”
The wells were recently tested for PFCs, or perfluorinated compounds. The state Department of Environmental Conservation Waste Management requested the testing after PFCs were detected in groundwater at landfills and manufacturing sites in southern Vermont.
Environmental science and engineering firm KAS Inc. said in a report that further investigation or remedial action at the landfill is not warranted at this time.
If approvals are in place by the spring, the solar project is expected to go into construction this summer.
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Information from: Brattleboro Reformer, https://www.reformer.com/
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