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NEWHA/VIPSHIRE SafeWater Alliance April L2, 20L9 New Hampshire Safe Water Alliance 2gL Washington Road Rye, NH 03870 Mr. Chip MackêY New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services 29 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 0330L Dear Mr. Mackey- please accept our petition with approximately L,100 signatures urging NHDES to enact more strict maximum contaminant levels (MCLs)for PFAS in our drinking water in response to the rulemaking being conducted under Env-Dw 700-800, Env-Or 603.3, and Env-W q402 in response to the enactment of SB-309 which became chaptered law 0368 in June of 2018. Over 40 comments in support of lower MCls have also been submitted electronically to you via our actionnetwork.org website. Thank you and feel free to contact us with any questions or comments. Best, Mindi Messmer Rep. Renny Cushing Co-Founders, New Hampshire Safe Water Alliance Page 1 of 108 NHSWA Petition Env-Dw 700-800, Env-Or 603.3, and Env-Wq 402 First name Last name City State Zip Comments Mindi Messmer Rye NH 3870 Michael Messmer Rye NH 3870 Lisa Moll Madbury NH 3823 Regan McCarthy Hampton NH 3842 Sheryl Shirley Holderness NH 3245 Sheryl Shirley Holderness NH 3245 Christine Torres Manchester NH 3103 Persephone Bennett Portsmouth NH 3801 Sounds like we don‚Äôt know much about how these chemicals - how long they last, how they may impact the environment and people long-term- seems like the precautionary principle should be applied here. My child‚Äôs school and two others are close to a landfill that is leaking these chemicals. I told her not to drink the water there. We must ensure the safety of these kids. They drink the water at their schools nearly 300 days/year. NO AMOUNT of these Tara Schroeder Tamworth NH 3886 chemicals in their drinking water is safe!!!! Linda Haskins Exeter NH 3833 Amy Hansen Hampton NH 3842 Clean water....required. Marc Lane Stratham NH 3885 Please act on behalf of the health of New Hampshire residents. Drinking water regulations should have high standards yet ours are so low. Please make the changes that Alison Freidlin Newfields NH 3856 we need! Mo Baxley Laconia ID 3346 Please act now to protect our water for our children. Don't Joanne Foster Portsmouth NH 3801 wait for the EPA - it will be too late for our children. Peggie Greenough Jaffrey NH 3452 Claudette Barker Portsmouth NH 3801 Page 2 of 108 NHSWA Petition Env-Dw 700-800, Env-Or 603.3, and Env-Wq 402 First name Last name Timestamp (EST) Mindi Messmer 2019-02-16 00:36:09 EST Michael Messmer 2019-02-16 00:46:25 EST Lisa Moll 2019-02-16 01:09:50 EST Regan McCarthy 2019-02-16 01:11:25 EST Sheryl Shirley 2019-02-16 01:17:07 EST Sheryl Shirley 2019-02-16 01:17:08 EST Christine Torres 2019-02-16 05:58:34 EST Persephone Bennett 2019-02-16 07:18:45 EST Tara Schroeder 2019-02-16 07:36:53 EST Linda Haskins 2019-02-16 08:07:49 EST Amy Hansen 2019-02-16 08:08:22 EST Marc Lane 2019-02-16 08:11:47 EST Alison Freidlin 2019-02-16 08:12:05 EST Mo Baxley 2019-02-16 08:24:55 EST Joanne Foster 2019-02-16 08:30:37 EST Peggie Greenough 2019-02-16 09:40:55 EST Claudette Barker 2019-02-16 10:18:20 EST Page 3 of 108 NHSWA Petition Env-Dw 700-800, Env-Or 603.3, and Env-Wq 402 NH Sierra Club supports these requirements in the rules for catherine Corkery Concord NH 3301 the state of New Hampshire. debra cinamon Brentwood NH 03833-6407 Allison Davis Dover NH 3820 Diana Carpinone Dover NH 3820 Clean drinking water is a basic human right. Andrea Brockelman York ME 3909 Jen Giegengack Portsmouth NH 3801 PFAS need to be cleaned up in Pease, CL and Merrimack. This Carol DiPirro Merrimack NH 03054-4279is negligent that you are not acting Please consider we are not exposed to one pfas at a time! We have multiple exposure pathways to many, not all of which Laurene Allen Merrimack NH 3054 are even known to us! ATSDR's recommendation is much lower 7 ppt than USEPA levels. Levels should be set to the most at risk citizens, babies Victoria Quint Brookfield WI 53005 and small children. Priscilla Hardy Harrisville NH 3450 Sue DespotopulosBend OR 97702 Kristin Ayers Merrimack NH 3054 Andrea Badger Lyndeborough NH 3082 Linda BoltrukiewiczLaconia NH 3246 Thank you Mindy and all. Page 4 of 108 NHSWA Petition Env-Dw 700-800, Env-Or 603.3, and Env-Wq 402 catherine Corkery 2019-02-16 10:23:38 EST debra cinamon 2019-02-16 10:24:26 EST Allison Davis 2019-02-16 10:26:17 EST Diana Carpinone 2019-02-16 11:24:31 EST Andrea Brockelman 2019-02-16 12:42:02 EST Jen Giegengack 2019-02-16 12:48:29 EST Carol DiPirro 2019-02-16 16:33:40 EST Laurene Allen 2019-02-16 16:41:18 EST Victoria Quint 2019-02-16 17:11:09 EST Priscilla Hardy 2019-02-16 17:26:51 EST Sue Despotopulos2019-02-16 19:30:29 EST Kristin Ayers 2019-02-16 19:52:39 EST Andrea Badger 2019-02-16 20:59:40 EST Linda Boltrukiewicz2019-02-16 22:22:44 EST Page 5 of 108 NHSWA Petition Env-Dw 700-800, Env-Or 603.3, and Env-Wq 402 NH needs DES to protect its citizens who have already been, and continue to be, exposed to toxic PFAS chemicals in our air, water and soil. Our #1 in the nation rates for pediatric, breast, bladder and esophageal cancers is more than concerning. People here are sick! To set MCL‚Äôs please use the science that is MOST protective of human health- as that should be the priority. NJ, VT, and other states are leading by example. Please follow theirs. I ask that you don‚Äôt ignore or cherry-pick the science prioritizing cost to business, or put corporate wealth over public health. The EPA is failing in its Nancy Murphy Merrimack NH 3054 mission and already doing that. Thank you. Government‚Äôs most basic function is the safety of its citizens. As we learn more of the negative impact that these ‚Äòforever chemicals‚Äô are having on human health, new data suggests there may actually be no safe level of exposure. We ask our elected officials to enact stricter regulations, using the CDC‚Äôs recommendations and the precautionary principle, to protect the citizens of NH. Given what we know Kim Loosmann Newfields NH 3856 thus far, we can‚Äôt afford to wait! Kathryn Russell dover NH 3820 Shaina Kasper Montpelier VT 5602 Laurie Switzer Encinitas CA 92024 Savitri Horrigan Merrimack NH 3054 Emily Crafford Seekonk MA 2771 Jenny Freedman North Hampton NH 3862 Nicole Azzarito Danbury CT 6811 I honestly just have to say I'm not even sure how this isn't Sabryn Farashahi Keene NH 3431 required yet- Kevin Woolley Fitzwilliam NH 3447 Jim McConnell North Swanzey NH 3431 Page 6 of 108 NHSWA Petition Env-Dw 700-800, Env-Or 603.3, and Env-Wq 402 Nancy Murphy 2019-02-17 00:13:01 EST Kim Loosmann 2019-02-17 08:41:13 EST Kathryn Russell 2019-02-17 20:39:20 EST Shaina Kasper 2019-02-18 15:08:11 EST Laurie Switzer 2019-02-18 15:28:27 EST Savitri Horrigan 2019-02-19 20:56:20 EST Emily Crafford 2019-02-20 19:02:03 EST Jenny Freedman 2019-02-20 19:04:52 EST Nicole Azzarito 2019-02-20 20:42:43 EST Sabryn Farashahi 2019-02-20 20:43:32 EST Kevin Woolley 2019-02-20 22:38:17 EST Jim McConnell 2019-02-20 23:40:55 EST Page 7 of 108 NHSWA Petition Env-Dw 700-800, Env-Or 603.3, and Env-Wq 402 Jeanne Sable FITZWILLIAM NH 3447 Lewis Hadley PLAISTOW NH 3865 Theresa Robbitts Fitzwiliam NH 3447 maria krasinski peterborough NH 3458 Jennifer Brackett EXETER NH 3833 William Power Lee NH NH 3861 Ross Patterson KEENE NH 3431 Jill Capobianco Portsmouth NH 3801 Lenny Willis Exeter NH 3833 Sarah Brown Portsmouth NH 3801 Makes me wonder if I would still need my scheduled Jenny Tobler Hampton NH 3842 mastectomy if I hadn't moved to NH 17 years ago. Laura Cromwell South berwick ME 3908 Julie Condon Hampton NH 3842 Meg Pacelli Stratham NH 3885 Jessica Boudreau Northwood NH 3261 Ezgi Cubukcu New York NY 10009 Jose Rodriguez San Antonio TX 78213 Molly Campbell Dover NH NH Susan Hansen Cheshire MA 1225 Nathan Smith Fitchburg MA 1420 Maureen Noble Palm Desert CA 92260 Ana Barndollar Portsmouth NH 3801 Dave Vroom Hampton NH 3842 catherine Corkery Concord NH 3301 Scott Wickett Lyndeborough NH 3082 Carol Branchaud Kingston NH 3848 Patricia Martin Rindge NH 03461-5926 Page 8 of 108 NHSWA Petition Env-Dw 700-800, Env-Or 603.3, and Env-Wq 402 Jeanne Sable 2019-02-21 11:09:37 EST Lewis Hadley 2019-02-21 14:29:32 EST Theresa Robbitts 2019-02-21 14:58:04 EST maria krasinski 2019-02-21 16:08:05 EST Jennifer Brackett 2019-02-21 16:10:23 EST William Power 2019-02-21 20:08:26 EST Ross Patterson 2019-02-21 20:17:13 EST Jill Capobianco 2019-02-21 22:02:59 EST Lenny Willis 2019-02-21 22:51:38 EST Sarah Brown 2019-02-22 08:20:26 EST Jenny Tobler 2019-02-22 08:59:14 EST Laura Cromwell 2019-02-22 09:08:02 EST Julie Condon 2019-02-22 09:55:02 EST Meg Pacelli 2019-02-22 10:03:18 EST Jessica Boudreau 2019-02-22 10:23:53 EST Ezgi Cubukcu 2019-02-22 10:40:24 EST Jose Rodriguez 2019-02-22 10:51:10 EST Molly Campbell 2019-02-22 12:45:19 EST Susan Hansen 2019-02-22 13:22:27 EST Nathan Smith 2019-02-22 14:08:28 EST Maureen Noble 2019-02-22 14:31:33 EST Ana Barndollar 2019-02-22 15:07:10 EST Dave Vroom 2019-02-22 15:49:39 EST catherine Corkery 2019-02-22 16:41:24 EST Scott Wickett 2019-02-22 17:09:23 EST Carol Branchaud 2019-02-22 18:33:26 EST Patricia Martin 2019-02-22 18:35:04 EST Page 9 of 108 NHSWA Petition Env-Dw 700-800, Env-Or 603.3, and Env-Wq 402 Why ever would we go against the CDC‚Äôs recommended levels?VT & NJ are good launch points but we should CDC Roy Strasser Stratham NH 3885 recommendation! Coeli Hoover Dover NH 3820 Terri O'Rorke Keene NH 3431 Jessica Abrams Lee NH 3861 Please take action.
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