Selectboard Orders PFOA Water Notice, Action Plan

Selectboard · Meeting of July 6, 2026

Duxbury learned about 200 homes may exceed the EPA's new PFOA water limit. Consultant Alston Potts of Apex Company told the Selectboard the Lakeshore well has averaged 4.5 parts per trillion of PFOA since 2021, above the EPA's four-parts-per-trillion limit taking full effect in April 2029. Chair Amy M. MacNab pushed back on using a five-year average, saying "which residents are receiving more than four parts per trillion?" Board directed Water Superintendent Mark Cloud to draft a resident notification letter and asked staff for an interim plan, possibly a filtered water-filling station like one in Easton.

Separately, the board heard an engineering peer review putting Powder Point Bridge wood-restoration costs at $4.7 million to $16 million versus a MassDOT replacement estimated at $167 million to $182 million, and appointed Taylor Doyle to the Planning Board.

In the full story:

• Open Forum and Announcements
• Powder Point Bridge Engineering Peer Review
• Joint Planning Board Interview and Appointment
• Clean Energy Consolidated Application Start Date
• PFAS Contamination in the Lakeshore Well
• Water and Sewer Business: Abatements
• Fiscal 2026 Year-End Budget Transfers
• Committee Appointments, Resignations and Routine Business
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 2,840 words

Source: the Selectboard meeting of July 6, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.