The board of health announced Tuesday that more residents will be able to receive testing sample kits from the town to test their drinking water for PFAS, a group of chemicals formally known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Resident Jessica Roddy has been calling attention to the potential dangers of the "forever chemicals" to town officials since she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer this summer.
The Chilmark School stopped using its drinking water this week while the school explores installing a filtration system to weed out PFAS contamination.
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection sent a notice to the town on June 9 telling officials they need to undertake mitigation efforts after new PFAS samples were found.
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection last week notified the town that it needed to come up with plan after five monitoring wells had detected levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances above the state standard.
The West Tisbury select board this week scheduled a June 13 special town meeting to reconsider the regional high school operating budget.