[CPEO-MEF] PFCs, HEALTH: "Pease [NH] water contamination could be part of large health study"

[Lenny Siegel]

Pease water contamination could be part of large health study

By Jeff McMenemy
Seacoast Online (NH)
February 16. 2016 



PORTSMOUTH - A federal official said a potential health study on water contamination at the former Pease Air Force Base could be part of a broader group of contaminated Department of Defense sites.

Frank Bove, the senior epidemiologist for The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, pointed to other similar sites in Pennsylvania and Delaware that could be part of a bigger study.

“We might do a combined study if Pease’s population isn’t large enough,” Bove said during a City Council meeting Tuesday night in City Hall.

Bove also talked about a potential health study addressing the health impacts from people who were exposed to contaminated water in a city-owned well at the former Air Force base, which is now a Superfund clean-up site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20160216/pease-water-contamination-could-be-part-of-large-health-study

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