Representatives from Unicorn Management Consultants, which is overseeing the response to perfluorooctanoic acid contamination of the water system, said there have been no further talks with the owner of a potential well site that was under consideration late last year.
The report will look at long-term solution to address the PFOA contamination, which now is being eliminated by an enclosed carbon filtering system installed near the district well head off Route 346.
The idea was rejected by the board as inadequate.
Board members were especially critical of a plan to hand over to the district maintenance of the filtering system after three years.
Another potential issue with long-term filtering came up during the meeting Monday, when resident Jim Winchester brought in a blackened water filter element from a rental property he owns within the water district.
O’Connor said Monday there had been no further contact with the property owner.
The consultants earlier considered a well site on the former Green Mountain Race Track property, but negotiations with the owners to allow preliminary testing broke down.
Currently, the track property off Route 7 is involved in foreclosure proceedings in Bennington Superior Court Civil Division.
State requirements Tim Raymond, chief of the Operations and Engineering Section of the state’s Public Drinking Water Program, notified O’Connor in an email in February that the improvements to the filtering system initially proposed by Unicorn would not meet Vermont water supply standards.
If a new well option is not possible, Raymond stated, then the insurer funding the contamination response should "account for the full construction improvement costs for the provision of a permanent [filtering] system, including operation and maintenance life-cycle costs for the water system for the duration of time where the well will be impacted by PFOA and/or PFOS."

This is according to a new UC Davis study, which suggests that permanent solutions aren’t that far away.
But 66 percent of these people live within one mile of a system that could supply them clean water.
A majority of those without safe drinking water in these small rural places are people of color — Hispanics make up 57 percent of all the people that get water from out-of-compliance water systems in the eight counties represented.
The authors hope the research alerts state decision-makers to take action by funding ways to connect communities to existing infrastructure and incentivizes water agencies to help.
For many of these communities, this would mean a pipeline extension or annexation.
“It’s really difficult to ask that population to bear the burden of fixing what is really a state created and statewide problem,” Pannu said.
“Because they’re small and remote they also don’t have a lot of political power when it comes to trying to sway the county for example.” Around 100 residents are bringing samples of dirty water from their towns to the state Capitol on Wednesday to show lawmakers at a hearing.
Last year, a group of legislators introduced Senate Bill 623, which would set up a fund for safe and affordable drinking water.
The bill is still active in the Assembly, but water justice leaders are approaching the topic in a new way this year: They want permanent funds allocated out of the state budget for connecting communities with water contamination issues to clean water sources.
“Within the next decade and with adequate funding, we could solve a problem that has plagued low-income, rural communities for over 50 years,” Pannu said.