Info Session Set on Pease Drinking Water Contaminant

City and state officials will hold a public information session May 28 on the contaminant found in a drinking water well at Pease International Tradeport earlier this spring.

The meeting is designed to discuss the discovery of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid and to answer questions. 

The city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services and the state Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health are hosting the session.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. May 28 at the DES offices at 222 International Drive, Suite 175, at Pease (See Map Image Attached)

The PFCs were found in the Haven Well at Pease, and that well was shut down immediately, according to Brian Goetz, Deputy Director of Public Works in Portsmouth.

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The former Pease Air Force Base, which operated from 1956 to 1991, used firefighting foam for plane crashes and training exercises and that foam is believed to have contained PFCs that leached into the ground, officials said. The former Pease Air Force Base is currently a Superfund site being cleaned up by the Air Force, with DES and EPA oversight.