[Military Environmental Forum] PFAS: Pease Air Force Base (NH) "pushed to pay for PFAS cleanup of two Portsmouth wells"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force pushed to pay for PFAS cleanup of two Portsmouth wells

By Jeff McMenemy
Portsmouth Herald
September 23, 2026

    • New Hampshire's Congressional delegation is urging the Air Force to fund a treatment system for two Portsmouth city water wells.
    • The wells are contaminated with PFAS chemicals from the former Pease Air Force Base, with levels exceeding new EPA standards.
    • These two wells supply nearly a quarter of the community's drinking water.
    • Without immediate action, the city risks not meeting the EPA's 2029 compliance deadline for safe drinking water.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/2026/09/23/air-force-pfas-cleanup-portsmouth-nh-wells/91885347007/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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