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“Merrimack has paid a steep price to clean up PFAS pollution in its public drinking water. A lawmaker said Friday she hopes that doesn’t mean the town will miss out on funds from massive lawsuit settlements from manufacturers of the ‘forever chemicals.’
Rep. Rosemarie Rung, a Merrimack Democrat, pointed out that in New Hampshire those settlement funds will be directed to the Drinking Water and Groundwater Trust Fund, which will provide loans and grants to public water systems where levels of PFAS, a class of harmful man-made chemicals, are above standards.
In 2019, voters approved the Merrimack Village District to spend $14.5 million to filter four public wells contaminated with PFAS. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, a French manufacturer that emitted PFAS from its Merrimack facility, agreed to foot filtration for two other public wells.”…