[CPEO-BIF] Fletcher Paint Works, Milford, New Hampshire

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Slow going for Milford Superfund site cleanup

By NANCY BEAN FOSTER
Manchester Union Leader (NH)
May 18, 2012

MILFORD - It's been 22 years since the Environmental Protection  
Agency identified the former Fletcher Paint Works on Elm Street and a  
storage facility on Mill Street as Superfund sites, but it looks like  
it's going to be at least another year before any clean-up work begins.

"It continues at a slow pace, (with) no significant development,"  
said Milford Town Administrator Guy Scaife. "Actual remedial work is  
expected to begin in the fall of 2013."

According to the EPA, Fletcher's manufactured and sold residential- 
use paints and stains at its Milford plant from 1949 until 1991. Bulk  
paint pigments, drums and miscellaneous materials were stored at both  
the Elm Street facility and the Mill Street storage shed area, and  
those drums contained polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are  
known carcinogens.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120518/NEWS02/705199975

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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