[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Parents receive 'terrifying' blood test results" at Pease, NH

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Parents receive 'terrifying' blood test results

By Jeff McMenemy
Seacoast Online
August 19. 2015 

PORTSMOUTH - The mother of a 5-year-old girl who has been exposed to contaminated city water for four years called her child’s blood tests results “terrifying.”

“It’s very nerve-wracking. I was very upset reading the results,” Chelsi Christensen said during an interview Wednesday. “I don’t know how to feel. Is she going to get cancer, is she going to have fertility issues. It’s terrifying.”

Christensen’s daughter, Madelynn Dinan, started going to the Great Bay Kids Company day care on the Pease Tradeport when she was just 11 months old. She’s 5 years old now.

Madelynn was exposed to what the Environmental Protection Agency are calling “contaminants of emerging concern” by drinking water from the city-owned Haven well at what used to the Pease Air Force Base.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20150819/NEWS/150818993

See also "Air Force agrees to treat contaminated wells"
http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20150818/NEWS/150819099

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