Hurley discusses its contaminated landfill
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From Hudson Valley One - A report on the conditions at the former Hurley landfill has led to questions in the town about possible pollution of nearby wells caused by lack of maintenance. Crawford & Associates, the town’s engineers, suggested the town apply for a grant to remediate PFAS detected by DEC’s testing.
The engineering report prompted councilman Mike Boms to ask whether the lack of leachate pumping for 15 months would have caused contamination. DEC regional enforcement engineer David Pollack had been concerned about the lack of pumping, Boms said.
“Basically, that by having no leachate pulls for those 15 months, the field became very saturated and could breach the berm. And he said that it could escape and migrate outside the leachate field, streams, or into neighboring wells,” Boms said. “About a month later, we got a report saying that there were wells on Collier Road that had the same contaminants in their drinking water as what’s in the leachate field, contaminants that DEC has tested for.”