Well To Be Filtrated For Chemicals

By Bob Vosseller

MANCHESTER – The township will pay

$150,000 for remediation of the well in the eastern service area that has high levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).

Business Administrator Carl Block explained that the remediation was a “temporary filtration system that will cover our peak seasons and will filtrate for PFOS. Federal funding will replace that. It will be a temporary filtration unit for six months. The permanent fi x will be an upgrade of the treatment station which will be quite a bit more money.”

He added that the reason for the temporary fi x was that the upgrade work couldn’t be

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