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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force To Provide Portsmouth $1.3M For Ongoing Pease Clean-Up

By News release 
InDepth NH (NH)
August 8, 2017

PORTSMOUTH — The U.S. Air Force has agreed to pay the city of Portsmouth $1.3 million to complete the next steps in the ongoing Pease clean-up effort.

The Environmental Services Cooperative Agreement for Engineering Design Services will require the Air Force to provide the city of Portsmouth with funding to complete design plans for the carbon filtration system that will remove perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) in water from the Haven, Harrison and Smith Wells, which are treated at the former Pease Air Force Base water treatment facility now operated by the city.

This is the third agreement between the Air Force and the city for expenses related to mitigating PFC levels, which have been measured at levels exceeding the EPA’s lifetime health advisory in local drinking water. The first two agreements provided funding for preliminary design services and for a pilot project and demonstration of PFC removal.

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For the entire article, see
http://indepthnh.org/2017/08/08/air-force-agrees-to-provide-city-of-portsmouth-1-3-million-to-continue-ongoing-pease-clean-up-effort/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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