Answers to your Questions & Town's Response to Correspondence
Questions were posed, and issues raised, at Town Council meetings in June, July and August. In an attempt to address them and other questions, a question and answer format has been created for the public’s benefit. The questions/issues are not listed in any particular order, so the response may be redundant or may appear in multiple places. If a question/issue was posed and we didn’t understand it or misinterpreted it, please feel free to contact the Town Manager’s office. Click here for the list of questions with their answers.
Other Field Related Topics / Responses to Communications
The Town's Conservation Commission submitted correspondence to the Town Council addressing concerns over installation of an artificial playing field. Please click here to see the original correspondence and the Town's response.
On August 28, 2024, Mr. Roselli, President of the Burrillville Land Trust, in a letter asked the Town Council to reject the artificial field project. Read the letter from the Burrillville Land Trust and the Town's Response by clicking here.
The Town received correspondence from an assistant professor of The Children’s Environmental Health Center at the ICAHN School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The Town asked a toxicologist from TRC (the company that authored the report) to review the July 23, 2024 correspondence. Click here to find the July 23 correspondence, and right after it is the toxicologist’s review of that report.
On August 12, the Town received correspondence from John Marsland, President of Blackstone River Watershed Council. The Town asked TRC to respond to the concerns expressed in this correspondence. Click here to find the August 12 correspondence, with TRC's review of it.
On August 20, the Town received a joint letter from RI Department of Environmental Management and RI Department of Health. The Town asked TRC to respond to the concerns expressed in this correspondence. Click here to find the August 12 correspondence, with TRC's response to it.
Recent Legislation
The 2024 Rhode Island General Law relating to PFAS is vague and amorphous. Outside of the ban on firefighting foam, the law is wide open to interpretation, including but not limited to, which PFAS will be regulated and what those regulations are. It appears to pass off to non-elected officials the regulatory aspects of the law going forward.
More will be posted as we unwind the legislative testimony and exhibits used to create this law.
Read the legislation here: House Bill No. 7356 SUB A as amended AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 (Enacts the Consumer PFAS Ban Act of 2024, prohibiting the intentional addition of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances of PFAS in products offered for sale or manufactured in the state as of January 1, 2027.)