OCE Helps Connect Bennington Residents to Municipal Water Following PFOA Contamination
Following the closure of a Teflon-coating plant, it was found that 60-70 residential wells in North Bennington had been contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic acids (PFOAs), ranging everywhere from trace amounts to a thousand parts per trillion (ppt)—Vermont’s standard is not to exceed 20 ppt. OCE produced a preliminary engineering report that recommended the Village abandon a [...]