[CPEO-MEF] GROUNDWATER, CLOSURE: "Portsmouth, Air Force reach pact on tainted wells" at former Pease Air Force Base (NH)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Portsmouth, Air Force reach pact on tainted wells

By Jeff McMenemy
Seacoast Online (NH)
October 3. 2014

PORTSMOUTH - City officials have reached a memorandum of agreement  
with the U.S. Air Force concerning the contamination of a city well  
at Pease International Tradeport.

Deputy City Attorney Suzanne Woodland states in a memo to City  
Manager John Bohenko that the Air Force has agreed to pay the city  
$154,000 for the initial costs to find a new water supply. The  
agreement followed the discovery in May of elevated levels of  
perofluorinated compounds (PFC), which the Environmental Protection  
Agency defines as a "contaminant of emerging concern" in the city- 
owned Haven Well. The city then immediately shut down the well. There  
are two other city-owned wells at the tradeport.

The EPA classified perofluorinated compounds as contaminants of  
emerging concern "because the risk to human health … may not be known."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20141003/NEWS/141009651/101141/ 
NEWS

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Lenny Siegel
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