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Portsmouth Herald Editor's note: The following letter was sent by the Greenland Board of Selectmen to the Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. Selectmen were upset by the Coakley Landfill Group's seeming lack of concern and action regarding PFAS pollution leaching from the EPA Superfund site and endangering citizens' drinking water. April 26 – To the Editor: Dear NHDES Commissioner Robert Scott, On April 14, 2021 Town Administrator Matthew Scruton and I remotely attended the Coakley Landfill Group (CLG) meeting to learn more about activities and studies t...

Kittredge: Why is Portsmouth staff siding with developers over taxpayers? Clare Kittredge When 150 upset neighbors and residents show up en masse to voice their displeasure with a development project as they did last Saturday on the banks of the North Mill Pond, yet Portsmouth’s city planning staffers enthusiastically advocate for the project, something is wrong. And these city staffers are not looking out for the best interests of the taxpayers who have strongly expressed their views. So I found it shocking to watch Portsmouth city planning staffers openly campaign this week (April 15) f...

GREENLAND – The Environmental Protection Agency is hosting a virtual public meeting about the Superfund Coakley Landfill site on Wednesday night. The March 3 public meeting will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. and will include updates from the EPA, along with information about the status of residential well sampling around the landfill, which will be presented by Drew Hoffman of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. The landfill is located in Greenland and North Hampton. Members of the Coakley Landfill Group (CLG), who are scheduled to speak during Wednesday’s public meetin...

Another PFAS detected in wells near Coakley Landfill NORTH HAMPTON – Former state Rep. Mindi Messmer believes residents who live near the Coakley Landfill Superfund site should be concerned by detections of another PFAS contaminant in private wells. “It is concerning because once again we have people exposed to a chemical that we have no enforceable standards for,” Messmer said after perfluorooctanesulfonamide (PFOSA) was found in private wells near the landfill. “Other states are taking steps to regulate PFOSA and New Hampshire needs to do the same.” Messmer, a scientist and envir...