[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Saint-Gobain factory, New Hampshire

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Thousands of people in New Hampshire may still be drinking polluted water, years after the largest contamination in state history 

By David Abel 
Boston Globe(MA)
June 5, 2022

MERRIMACK, N.H. — Six years after local officials learned that a plastics factory here was spewing massive amounts of toxic chemicals into the air, Nancy Lundquist opened a letter from the state with a frightening and mystifying subject line: “GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION NOTIFICATION.”

Lundquist and her husband, who moved to the nearby town of Bedford several years ago, were only vaguely familiar with the extent of the pollution, which is now considered the largest source of groundwater contamination in the history of New Hampshire, affecting tens of thousands of people throughout the region.

So the Lundquists, who have a 7-year-old daughter, were taken aback when they read in April that at least one of their neighbors’ wells had been found to contain toxic chemicals at levels that the state’s law deems unsafe to drink. The letter advised them to contact the multinational manufacturing company that owns the factory, Saint-Gobain, to request that their own well be tested.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/05/science/thousands-people-new-hampshire-may-still-be-drinking-polluted-water-years-after-largest-contamination-state-history/


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Lenny Siegel
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