Town Meeting Minute Issue #16: The PFAS Map That Stopped a Vote Four Years of Hearings
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Town Meeting Minute · Issue Nº 16 · September 2026
Groundwater: A New Line Item in the Zoning Ledger
A PFAS contamination map just did what months of testimony couldn't — and three other decisions across four counties are still sitting on the docket.
Welcome back to Town Meeting Minute, Seaport Real Estate Services' recurring read on the municipal decisions reshaping land value across New London & Middlesex Counties (CT) and Washington & Newport Counties (RI). This issue, the story isn't a vote — it's an environmental data point that just became a land-use variable. In Tiverton, a newly posted PFAS contamination map froze a comprehensive-permit vote that four years of hearings hadn't stopped. Meanwhile, Stonington's two biggest…
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