2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 17:04:50 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "New Tech Scrubs PFAS Contamination From Groundwater At Pease" (NH)
 
New Tech Scrubs PFAS Contamination From Groundwater At Pease 

By ANNIE ROPEIK 
New Hampshire Public Radio
JULY 30, 2018 

A first-of-its-kind water treatment system has begun filtering high levels of toxic PFAS chemicals from the groundwater at Pease International Tradeport.

It’s the latest, biggest phase of millions of dollars in government response after PFAS was found in a drinking water well at Pease in 2014.

…

This facility is the first in the country to filter PFAS with a special regenerative resin. Singer picks up a cup of that resin and gives it a shake. It’s just an unremarkable white, off-white powder.

“So this is the material that’s in all these tanks – just a fine, Styrofoam beads-type material,” he says.

…

For the entire story, see
http://www.nhpr.org/post/new-tech-scrubs-pfas-contamination-groundwater-pease#stream/0

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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