In my role as a member of the Pease Restoration Advisory Board, I’m charged with relaying information to the public about the Air Force usage of fire fighting foams and the resulting PFAS chemicals that were released into the ground water/drinking water on the former Air Force base and surroundiing communities. This is a report and summary of the USAF findings from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Division of Community Health Investigations.

Continuing his leadership on this issue, Congressman Pappas is a co-sponsor of legislation which will establish national drinking water standards for select PFAS chemicals, hold polluters accountable, and help local communities pay for water upgrades.

As we have seen on the Seacoast, at Pease, and in Merrimack, Bedford, Londonderry and Litchfield PFAS pollution has very real impacts right in our backyards. For years, local advocates in these communities have done incredible work raising awareness, educating neighbors, and getting results, and this bill will aid their efforts at the federal level.

Clean drinking water free of man-made toxins is critical to our quality of life in the Seacoast.