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Top EPA Officials Address Water Contamination Concerns In N.H.

Annie Roepik/NHPR
Regional EPA administrator Alexandra Dunn, left, speaks with Coakley neighbor and activist Jillian Lane beside a warning sign at Berry's Brook outside Coakley Landfill.

Neighbors at the Coakley Landfill Superfund site in Greenland met privately with top EPA officials on Monday to discuss a long-standing concern: high levels of potentially toxic PFAS chemicals in a brook that runs alongside the landfill. 

Local residents handed New England EPA Administrator Alexandra Dunn a petition asking the agency to compell the group responnsible for the site's contamination to take several actions, including expanding testing of residential wells and installing water filters at homes and schools around the landfill. 

We get an update on the Coakley site, as well as other areas dealing with drinking-water contamination, from NHPR's Energy and Environment reporter Annie Ropeik. 

You can listen to this portion of the show, by clicking on this link.  This part of the conversation begins approximately 40 minutes into the recording.

Read Annie's reporting here

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