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“When you think Superfund, you think PCBs, or you think lead, now PFAS is part of that family, that scary family,” EPA official David Cash said.

Wetlands next to Pease are connected to the drinking water supply and North Mill Pond. Storing and handling chemicals on that site poses a large risk.

PORTSMOUTH – Seven years after city officials learned PFAS had contaminated one of its wells at the former Pease Air Force Base, city, state and federal officials celebrated the completion of the Pease Water Treatment Facility on Tuesday. The $17 million facility paid for by the Air Force has already been treating the Smith and Harrison wells so PFAS chemicals are now at non-detect levels, according to Al Pratt, the city’s water resource manager. “It’s working,” Pratt said following a press conference Tuesday morning at the site, which was attended by three members of the state’s...

PORTSMOUTH – Members of the Pease Community Assistance Panel will be putting up lawn signs and distributing brochures on Saturday to boost enrollment in the first federal health study on adults and children exposed to dangerous PFAS chemicals. Pease CAP member Andrea Amico said the volunteers are participating in the initiative to “raise awareness about the health study and hopefully increase enrollment in it.” Amico, who co-founded the Testing For Pease community activist group, stressed how important it is for adults – and their children – to participate in the study. “We can’...

Clean water advocate urges Biden, EPA to focus on PFAS chemicals PORTSMOUTH – Testing For Pease co-founder Andrea Amico is “optimistic” that President Joe Biden’s administration will work to better regulate dangerous PFAS chemicals now that he’s in office. “We need incredibly protective standards to protect people from ongoing exposure, and not only people impacted at military sites like we were at Pease, but also at industrial sites like we see in Merrimack, along with firefighters,” Amico, a Portsmouth mother of three, said during an interview Friday. “I am optimistic that w...