The water at hundreds of military outposts across the country is contaminated, exposing men, women, and children to health impacts.
The contaminants are from a family of chemicals known as PFAS found in foam used for firefighting. Public health officials shutdown a well associated with Pease Internationl Tradeport – a former air base — after testing found abnormally high levels of PFAS in the water, and in those who drank it.
Amico’s husband worked at the Tradeport and her kids still go to day-care there. She said her family does not show health impacts now, but she worries that will change with time. "Not just the next few years, but the course of their life, nd how this may have impacted them."
"We need to get this data, we need to get a study," Shaheen said, "we need to be able to provide some information to families that are very concerned about their future."
The area is also home to a suspected cancer cluster.