Tests show flow of contamination from former Lunt Silversmiths site in Greenfield
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
Greenfield Recorder (MA)
June 24, 2025
GREENFIELD — Officials expressed frustration Monday over procedural delays and complications while reviewing the results of the most recent groundwater testing in the area surrounding the former Lunt Silversmiths site that “strongly confirm” the contaminants are spreading.
The city is working with licensed site professional (LSP) Lyons Witten to study the site, while the Lunt Neighborhood Action Group hired its own LSP, Dan Felten. Witten, in a public presentation Monday, provided an overview of the most recent groundwater testing that was conducted in November, and noted that the contamination, namely of trichloroethylene (TCE), is flowing from the area of Kenwood Street toward Norwood Street.
“Groundwater is flowing from Norwood Street down toward Kenwood Street, and if groundwater is flowing that way, then contaminants are likely also flowing that way,” Witten said. “The laboratory results that are shown on this big plan strongly confirm that the contaminants are moving, at least the shallow contaminants in the shallow groundwater are moving, to the south and southwest.”
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