Story Archives of 'drinking water'

This month the Department of Environmental Services is wrapping up a series of public hearings around the Granite State on how best to manage our water resources, a key component of New Hampshire’s natural beauty and a cornerstone of its tourism industry. DES has come up with a new set of recommendations on how to maintain the health of the state’s waters, including improvements to dams, better protection for private wells, and a solution to the nagging problem of storm water runoff. We'll look at the state of our water resources and the plans to protect them.

Guests

• Sarah Pillsbury, administrator of the Drinking Water and Groundwater Bureau for the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
• Paul Susca, water resource planner for the Drinking Water and Groundwater Bureau
• Ted Diers, Coastal Program Manager for the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services

We'll also hear from

• Judith Spang, Democratic state representative from Strafford and chair of the Resources, Recreation and Development Committee

New Hampshire environmental officials have found a new and potentially dangerous contaminant at the Beede Waste Oil site in Plaistow.

The contaminant – known as 1,4 dioxane– has leaked from the Beede superfund site into more than a dozen residents’ drinking water.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports.

There might be millions of federal stimulus dollars running around but residents in one town weren’t ready to count those chickens before they hatch.

I’m Jon Greenberg with this town meeting minute.

As New Hampshire grows we’re learning more about the hazards facing water quantity, quality and infrastructure and are exploring new ways to combat them. Hydrologists, environmentalist, inventors, and water groups are working hard on this effort, thinking up new technologies, new ideas and new plans so we’ll have enough clean potable water for our future. We conclude our series by exploring the future of our state’s drinking water and what some in the state are doing about it.

We'll also get an update on the storms that hit New Hampshire yesterday.

This program was originally broadcast July 25, 2008

Guests

• Harry Stewart, Water Division Director at the Department of Environmental Services
• Brian Goetz, consultant for Weston and Sampson, a Portsmouth-based water treatment and wastewater design and consulting company and current president of New Hampshire’s Water Works Association

We'll also hear from

• Gregg Champlin, Deputy Public Information Officer for the New Hampshire Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
• Dean Kamen, founder and owner of DEKA Research and Development Corporation in Manchester; he has invented a water purification device called the Slingshot that can take any kind of polluted water and transfer it to potable water by using minimal energy
• David Paris, Water Supply Administrator for Manchester Water Works Water Treatment Plant
• John Edgar, Community Development Director for the town of Meredith