They say they don’t have enough time or information to comply with the requirement, which takes effect in January.
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Posted inThe Franklin Journal
Farmington raises rate for septage
Selectmen approved increasing the septage receiving rate from $85 to $175 per 1,000 gallons of septage.
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Posted inFranklin, News, The Franklin Journal
Farmington increases rate for septic waste brought to treatment plant
Local haulers will be charged $175 per 1,000 gallons, up from $85.
Posted inMaine
Latest impact of PFAS contamination: Rising sewer rates
The looming cost to homeowners in public sewer districts is the latest impact of an expanding crisis that has contaminated agricultural fields and drinking wells, closed farms and left some fish and game unsafe to eat.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, News
Auburn farmer says he has lost business despite meeting PFAS testing
Roger Gauthier says his land, previously owned by the Lewiston-Auburn Water Pollution Control Authority, has always met state screening standards for “forever chemicals.” Those standards will likely be lowered.
Posted inMaine
New federal PFAS advisory adds challenges to Maine’s costly PFAS cleanup
Water filtration systems that the state has been installing in Mainers’ homes appear to be removing detectable levels of harmful forever chemicals, but no one knows if they achieve the much lower levels deemed safe by the EPA.
Posted inMaine
Even trace amounts of PFAS chemicals pose health risk, new federal advisory says
Under the new guidance, Maine’s PFAS problem would challenge public water districts that serve hundreds of thousands of customers, not just rural residents and farmers who rely on well water.
Posted inMaine, Nation / World, Uncategorized
Proposed federal grants would help remove PFAS from rural water supplies
The Healthy H2O Act would help rural areas that rely on well water tests and treat for so-called forever chemicals.
Posted inElection 2022, Elections, Maine
As vote nears on Fairfield water expansion project, state says it’s unable to fund filter systems ‘in perpetuity’
Fairfield is considering a $48 million expansion of the public water system as a way to help those with private wells that testing has found to be contaminated by PFAS.
Posted inThe Franklin Journal
Wilton to install piping for sludge with PFAS contaminants
With the implementation of LD 1911, “An Act To Prevent the Further Contamination of the Soils and Waters of the State with So-called Forever Chemicals,” use of any sludge from wastewater treatment plants is prohibited.