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Berlin’s Comeback Stalled at Toxic Landfill | Concord News
Berlin’s comeback is gaining steam—with road repairs, federal funds, and a major downtown rebuild on the horizon—but a toxic legacy looms in the form of the Dummer Yard landfill. Once a site for hazardous waste, it’s now a source of PFAS contamination and costly leachate treatment, threatening the local river. A controversial plan to build a new landfill to fund cleanup was scrapped this summer, sparking community outrage and exposing a stalemate between state and city over responsibility. With no clear path forward, residents demand transparency and a public process to tackle the…
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