St. Gobain Won't Pay For Merrimack Water Filters

MERRIMACK, NH - Merrimack residents said Saint Gobain Performance Plastics should have to pay for water filters at the town's six public schools. According to WMUR, hundreds of residents the comments came at a public meeting last week to discuss the contamination.

Currently, the town is paying for water filtration in six public schools, which costs over $128,000.

"What they've done elsewhere is more than [in] New Hampshire," said Laurene Allen, part of the group Citizens for Clean Water. "We decided to put a petition together to ask the company to reimburse because the taxpayers are funding this money to filter the schools and they are the responsible party."

In a statement to WMUR, Saint Gobain said in addition to agreements to fund filtration systems in certain wells, "testing shows the PFOA levels in the school district's water are below the state's 70 parts per trillion standard."The company also added the district's water provider, "uses water from a broad area that includes many possible sources of PFOA."

PFOA or perfluorochemicals were found near the Saint Gobain plant in Merrimack in 2016.

You can read the full article at WMUR.