[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: New Hampshire communities "trying to determine scope of PFOA contamination"

[Lenny Siegel]

Keene, region begin trying to determine scope of PFOA contamination

By Meghan Foley 
Keene Sentinel (NH) 
March 12, 2018

They’re called emerging contaminants by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, meaning they have a “perceived, potential, or real threat to human health or the environment.”

And across the country, communities are scrambling to try to get a handle on them, including here in the Monadnock Region.

In New Hampshire, contamination from perfluorinated chemicals, specifically perfluorooctanic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), has been associated with industrial sources found in Merrimack and Litchfield, among other communities. The contaminants have also been recorded in high levels in well water at the former Pease Air Force Base in Portsmouth, and at a landfill straddling two of five towns that are part of a known cancer cluster on the Seacoast.
 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/environment/keene-region-begin-trying-to-determine-scope-of-pfoa-contamination/article_931755e2-6460-5486-9aa4-980371b50453.html

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Lenny Siegel
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