News Briefs: New Hampshire Culminates 7-Year Effort With PFAS Treatment Facility

The high-water mark of a seven-year effort to deal with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been achieved as city leaders, Air Force officials and the state’s congressional delegation recently celebrated the completion of a $13 million water treatment facility. The plant will treat contaminated water at Pease International Tradeport, which was linked to PFAS-containing firefighting foam from a former U.S. Air Force base.“We’ve learned a lot, and unfortunately we’re not alone in the discovery of PFAS contamination,” Portsmouth’s deputy director of public works, Brian Goetz, said at the event, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader.Operator