PFAS Levels JW wellfield boreholes

Request 711806101​

From the Arcadis Hydrological Study released May 2025 Quote from Page 11: "The levels of PFAS in the JW wellfield within St Ouen’s Bay and the Pont Marquet Stream presents a significant raw water quality challenge which restricts their use and JW’s ability to extract water from 

them." 

Can the Government please provide the PFAS Levels from the JW wellfield boreholes?

Response

Information regarding the PFAS Levels from the JW wellfield boreholes is provided in the attached documents.

20250603_CombinedFileR_ Redacted.pdf​

Some information has been redacted in accordance with Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, which relates to the exemption of personal information. Additionally, certain content has been removed as it falls outside the scope of this request.

Article applied 

Article 25 - Personal information  

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018. 

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if – 

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and 

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law. 

3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted. ​