2019 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:37:36 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Pease Development Authority (NH) and Conservation Law Foundation "settle Clean Water lawsuit"
 
PDA and CLF settle Clean Water lawsuit


By Jeff McMenemy
Seacoast online
January 11, 2019
 
 
PORTSMOUTH - The Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and Pease Development Authority (PDA) have reached an agreement to settle a lawsuit focused on Clean Water Act violations at Pease International Tradeport, CLF officials announced Friday afternoon.

David Mullen, the executive director for the Pease Development Authority, confirmed there was a settlement reached but referred all other questions to the N.H. Attorney General’s office.

The CLF filed suit against the PDA in 2016 claiming that stormwater runoff from the former Pease Air Force Base was polluting Great Bay and other area streams and brooks.

The two sides filed paperwork in U.S. District Court Friday announcing the settlement.

“Stormwater pollution is one of the greatest threats to the health of Great Bay,” said Tom Irwin, vice president and director of CLF New Hampshire. “This historic agreement ensures that the Pease Development Authority will be playing by the same rules as communities throughout the Seacoast and will comply with the Clean Water Act. The health and safety of our waters is essential to our communities and our economy. No one has a right to pollute them.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190111/pda-and-clf-settle-clean-water-lawsuit

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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
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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