[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "State admits shortfalls in response to Pease [AFB, NH] water contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State admits shortfalls in response to Pease water contamination

By Jeff McMenemy
Seacoast Online (NH)
March 31. 2015


PORTSMOUTH - State officials apologized for the way they handled  
their investigation into water contamination at the Pease  
International Tradeport and their lack of communication with the  
community.

"We heard you. We hear what you are saying. We heard the need to  
involve you in the planning," Dr. Jose Montero, the state’s director  
of public health, told a crowd of more than 100 people during a  
meeting Tuesday night on the tradeport.

Montero's comments and pledge to do better came at the end of a two- 
hour meeting when numerous parents and some city officials raised  
concerns about the people who either worked at Pease or had children  
who attended the two day cares at the tradeport being exposed to what  
the Environmental Protection Agency called a "contaminant of emerging  
concern."

Andrea Amico, of Portsmouth, whose two children attend day care at  
the tradeport and whose husband has worked at the former Air Force  
base for eight years, asked state officials "how can we have a seat  
at the table."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20150331/NEWS/150339746

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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