[CPEO-BIF] PFCs, HEALTH: "City pushes for health monitoring for those exposed to Pease [NH] water"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City pushes for health monitoring for those exposed to Pease water

By Jeff McMenemy
Seacoast Online 
August 26. 2015 

PORTSMOUTH – City officials and residents urged Air Force officials to treat the city-owned Smith and Harrison wells on the former Pease Air Force base and to pay for ongoing monitoring for people exposed to contaminated water.

Steve TerMaath, the chief of the Air Force’s Base Realignment and Closure program, repeatedly said the Air Force would rely on the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s (ATSDR) recommendations when it came to treating the two remaining open city wells on the former Pease Air Force Base.

City Councilor Stefany Shaheen, pushed to treat both wells rather than just wait for the contamination that closed the city-owned Haven well to migrate to the other wells.

“I can tell you from our perspective….I don’t care what the ATSDR says, we’ve got a population of people that have been exposed to contamination that’s been put in the water supply by the Air Force,” Shaheen said during a meeting held Wednesday night in City Council chambers.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20150826/NEWS/150829315/101017/NEWS

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