Mahopac News 06.16.2022

ROLLIN’VOL. NO. Visit TapIntoMahopac.net for the latest news. THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2022
ON THE
RIVER

On Memorial Day weekend, PHOTO COURTESY OF JOESPH GREENFIELD
members of Mahopac Boy
Scout Troop 1 went whitewa-
ter rafting on the Lehigh Riv-
er in eastern Pennsylvania—a
109-mile-long tributary of the
Delaware River. Pictured are
Scoutmaster Darrin Grimm,
Scout Cooper Grimm, his
friends Robin Ackers and
Matt Donovan, and Assistant
Scoutmaster Nick Green eld.

Probe into business-district water contamination continues

Property owners can now ask DEC for well testing

BY BOB DUMAS quest that their water be tested. the early 2000s, the contamination mental Conservation (DEC), the from Lake Mahopac. is public
EDITOR e Mahopac Business Dis- was removed but recent testing of agency is working with the state water supply is subject to annual
drinking water in some wells in the Department of Health (DOH), monitoring and reporting. Analy-
A state investigation into po- trict—the area between Route area showed that some contamina- the town of Carmel and the county sis of the chemicals that were in
tentially contaminated well water 6N (South Lake Boulevard) and tion remains. DOH to mitigate the problem. the water—per uorooctanoic
in the Mahopac Business District Route 6—was declared a State acid (PFOA) and per uorooctane
is continuing, and now home and Superfund site in the early ’80s be- According to a community- Portions of the area around the
business owners in the area can re- cause of the release of dry-cleaning update report issued last month by business district are connected SEE CONTAMINATION PAGE 4
chemicals into the groundwater. In the state Department of Environ- to a public water supply sourced

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