Board of Aldermen — 9/26/17 Page 18
PFOS. It’s about time we did because we are going to be poisoning 188,000 people with the Pennichuck
Water Company will be eventually supplying water to in Amherst, Bedford, Merrimack, Litchfield and part of
Manchester. Does the city want the liability of having a filtration system that doesn’t work in a facility that we
purchased and will be paying off for years? It is a very serious situation. Myself and one other person is
working right now with the United States Air Force down at Pease Air Force Base. They have heard about this
for seven years. We've got to do a study. We did a test from (Inaudible) down on Hoosick Falls on a particular
filtration system. We went from 17,000 parts per trillion in Hoosick Falls down to 0.068 parts per trillion. Those
results were obtained out of Sandia Labs where we sent the samples. That’s the only place in the Unites
States that can go below one part per trillion. The contamination that we got out on Route 101 needs to be
addressed and this Chamber needs to look at it.
We also need to look at the Merrimack River because we are taking water in from there below the Saint
Gobain facility. Those measurements up there in the Merrimack area are about 11-12 parts per trillion. They
originals were 5-7 parts per trillion. And, it is bio cumulative from the lifetime exposure is 70 parts per trillion.
Do the math. If you’ve got 5 parts per trillion in your drinking water, you will probably get about 1/3 of the parts
of that excreted. Then you have another glass. You still have a little bit left in you so it becomes bio
cumulative and it adds up. In Hoosick Falls, it’s going to take 15 years for those residents to meet the 70 parts
per trillion. Merrimack has just had the death of one person who had thyroid cancer attributed to the exposure
of PFOA and PFOS. | want you all to take this very, very seriously. A woman who gets pregnant has never
been exposed to it and is now drinking, her child gets exposed to it. Immediately when that child is born, they
are going to suffer. Please think about it and the wording that | said in the amendment that you just passed, |
would add “fully and diverse.” A full and diverse cross-section of the community. There’s no stigma added
anywhere with those words. It doesn’t matter if you are disabled, you’ve got one leg or as Alderman Moriarty
pointed out, several other words he used. Thank you very much.
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Lopez
| just want to remind anybody who is watching that the Veterans Stand Down is this Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to
2:00 p.m. at 45 High Street.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
| would just remind everyone that this Sunday, October 1*', is Memorial Sunday for the firefighters. It is at
10:00 a.m. | believe everyone received an invitation. If you haven’t responded, and you are planning on
attending, if you could respond. Thank you.
Alderman Schoneman
| just wanted to say thanks to the folks at the airport who hosted Wheels and Wings. They had more attendees
than they have ever had in the past, about 4300. It was a great success. The last time we were hear we
announced that we were going to be having it, and now these are the results. I’m looking forward to doing it
again next year. Thanks.
Alderman LeBrun
On October 14, there’s a legislative softball game at Anheuser-Busch to benefit the Liberty House in
Manchester.
Alderman Cookson
| just wanted to take the opportunity to thank many members of the Board of Education and members of the
Board of Aldermen for coming out to the Daniel Webster College to take a tour of the facility and take a look at
the opportunity that may have been. | appreciate you taking the time out of your day to come visit and take a
