Is that excitation wavelength or emission wavelength? If I understood correctly your concern is in the region of 250-300 nm. Higher signal at the edge of excitation wavelength is due to Rayleigh scattering. Rayleigh scattering is prominent in the UV region because of its dependence with (1/lamda)4
If this is just DNA, then it should not be fluorescent at all. There may be a fluorescent contaminant in it. Alternatively, you may be seeing Raman scatter from the water. What was the emission wavelength setting? Have you taken an emission spectrum?