KINGSBURY — Residents on Dean and Bardin roads are breathing a sigh of relief after tests found most of their wells are not contaminated with PFOA.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation went door to door last month and asked for permission to test every well near W. F. Lake Corp., a business in the Airport Industrial Park of Warren and Washington Counties.
Only one other well was contaminated, officials said Tuesday.
The first contaminated well tested at a PFOA level of 96 parts per trillion.
PFOA is considered a danger to human health at 70 parts per trillion.
DEC installed filter systems on both wells, at no cost to the homeowners.
Officials are in the process of testing five more wells, but the results so far seem to indicate that there is not a widespread drinking water contamination problem, they said.
If the company was unwilling, the state could still test the land, but the company is working with DEC, officials said.
The agency is still interested in testing wells.
In that case, St. Gobain Performance Plastics is located close to the village’s wells.