[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, WATER: Portsmouth wants Air Force to cover cost of former Pease AFB (NH) well cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City wants Air Force to cover costs of well cleanup
Loss of Pease water source won't hurt capacity

By Jeff McMenemy
Seacoast Online
June 1, 2014

PORTSMOUTH - City officials are prepared to turn to the U.S. Air  
Force to pay for any cleanup or legal costs needed to deal with the  
contamination of the Haven Well at Pease International Tradeport.

The tradeport previously operated as a U.S. Air Force Base from 1956  
to 1991 and is a Superfund cleanup site. The Air Force has been and  
continues to remediate any environmental issues at the tradeport, and  
the cleanup is being overseen by the state Department of  
Environmental Services and the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

City Manager John Bohenko said in an interview after a meeting about  
the contamination held at the tradeport Wednesday that city officials  
will ask the Air Force to "make us whole," for any cleanup or legal  
costs associated with the contamination.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20140601-NEWS-406010351

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