PORTSMOUTH – Seven years after city officials learned PFAS had contaminated one of its wells at the former Pease Air Force Base, city, state and federal officials celebrated the completion of the Pease Water Treatment Facility on Tuesday.
The $17 million facility paid for by the Air Force has already been treating the Smith and Harrison wells so PFAS chemicals are now at non-detect levels, according to Al Pratt, the city’s water resource manager.
“It’s working,” Pratt said following a press conference Tuesday morning at the site, which was attended by three members of the state’s congressional delegation, along with city leaders and long-time clean water advocate Andrea Amico.