[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: New Hampshire "Hassan sends letter to Obama on Pease testing"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hassan sends letter to Obama on Pease testing

Seacoast Online
October 12, 2015

CONCORD - Gov. Maggie Hassan is asking the federal government to allocate resources for long-term monitoring and testing for those who were exposed to chemicals from a contaminated well in Portsmouth.

Hassan sent a letter Monday to President Barack Obama.

"I am writing to request that you direct the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to allocate resources to study human health effects from exposure to perfluorochemicals (PFCs)," Hassan said in the letter to the president. "This request stems from the discovery that several wells on the former Pease Air Force Base are contaminated.”

Test results show that children exposed to water from the Haven well at the Pease International Tradeport have higher levels of the chemicals in their blood than children who weren't exposed.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20151012/NEWS/151019737

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