New Hampshire Matters!

ELECTION ISSUES 2020

Lincoln’s Risk Registry
David Lincoln Feb 8th, 2020
WHAT IF POLITICIANS CARED MORE ABOUT HELPING
THE PEOPLE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
THAN GETTING HELP FROM THEM TO GET ELECTED?
These are some of the issues we think NEW HAMPSHIRITES
DO WANT to hear more about

1. Health
2. Environment
3. Infrastructure
4. Economics
5. Housing
6. Justice
7. Values
8. Jobs
9. Foreign Wars
WHAT IF POLITICIANS CARED MORE ABOUT HELPING PEOPLE
THAN GETTING VOTES?
These are some of the issues we think NEW HAMPSHIRITES
DO NOT WANT to hear more about!
1. Tweets
2. Polls
2. Personal Attacks
3. Lies
4. Corruption
5. Golf
6. Hair
7. Racism
8. Nepotism
9. Scandals
1. All of these issues are researched on our android devices and displayed and shared

2. We have an App, ECO-EMERGENCY ALERT on GooglePlay, which can be downloaded

On Your Phone Now!

3. It contains Links to this data in NEW HAMPSHIRE, and every city, town and
neighborhood in the state.

4. It also contains instant Links to this data and (dozens of other interactive databases) in
every state, county and census tract in this country. Here is a sample of the databases:
,
DISEASE MORTALITIES, ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE, POLLUTION RESPONSES, ENVIRONMENTAL
JUSTICE, LEAD EXPOSURE RISKS, MILITARY BASES, REAL-TIME WILDFIRE MAPS, EARTHQUAKES,
FLOODS, DROUGHT, LANDSLIDES, DISEASE TRACKING, SEA LEVEL RISE, DEMOGRAPHICS etc.
Energy Facts
Energy Consumption
Energy Users
Energy Production
Electricity Production
Energy Prices
Geothermal Potential

SUGGESTION: Consider a study of

geothermal resources which could
potentially substitute for some of the power
from coal and oil fired plants.
Population Density
 Air Quality

Why should New

Hampshire have to
suffer health
impacts from Air
Pollution which
originates in other
states?
SUGGESTION: Consider another Regional
Cooperation Agreement with incentives and
penalties based on Air Quality management
results.
 Lead Poisoning
 Lead poisoning is entirely preventable.
 However, nearly 1 million children living in the
United States have blood lead levels high
enough to impair their ability to think,
concentrate, and learn.
 Evidence shows that the most common
source of lead exposure for children today is
lead paint in older housing and the
contaminated dust and soil it generates.
 New Hampshire has the oldest housing of
anywhere in the United States with 62% of its
homes built before lead-based paint was
banned in 1978.
 Children from all social and economic levels
can be affected by lead poisoning, but
children whose families are low income and
who are of minority race and ethnicity,
especially non-Hispanic black children, are at
most risk.
Lead Poisoning Cases in N.H.

New Hampshire Lead Poisoning Cases

(darker colors = higher number of cases)
N.H. CHILDHOOD LEAD EXPOSURE

https://tinymce.nhwis.net/plugins/moxiemanager/da
ta/files/docs/LeadExposure/CentralNHReport.pdf
 LEAD POISONING PREVENTION
•Ask a doctor to test your child if you are concerned about
him or her being exposed to lead.

•Avoid using home remedies (such as azarcon, greta, and

pay-loo-ah) and cosmetics (such as kohl and alkohl) that
contain lead.

•Damp-mop floors, damp-wipe surfaces, and frequently

wash your child's hands, pacifiers, and toys to reduce
exposure to lead in houses with lead.

•Talk to your state or local health department about testing

paint and dust from your home for lead if you live in a
house or apartment built before 1978, especially if young Lead poisoning is a serious but
children live with you or visit you. o
preventable health problem.
Keep your children away from
•Use only cold water from the tap for drinking, cooking, and
for making baby formula. Hot water is more likely than cold
sources of lead and follow these
water to contain higher levels of lead, and most of the lead recommendations:
in household water usually comes from plumbing in the https://www.nh.gov/epht/health-
house, not from the local water supply. topics/childhood-lead-poisoning.htm
 RADON IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
 Radon is the leading environmental cause of cancer deaths
in the U.S. and the leading cause of lung cancer in non-
smokers.
 Radon is a naturally-occurring radioactive gas that is commonly found in
bedrock and in water from bedrock (drilled) wells in New Hampshire.
 Radon gas is colorless, odorless and tasteless. Radon gas finds its way
into indoor air mainly by migrating from bedrock, through the soil and
into the home via cracks or other openings in the foundation.
 Radon from bedrock wells is released into indoor air during showering,
dishwashing and doing laundry. Dug wells and point wells tend to have
minimal to no radon. The amount of radon released from stone building
materials such as granite block foundations, fireplace materials, counter
tops, and floor or wall tiles is usually insignificant.
 Long-term exposure to radon leads to the deaths of an
estimated 100 New Hampshire residents each year.
Radon in Bedrock Aquifer Wells (Domestic)
Radon concentrations in the air and in water from private and
public-supply wells are higher at sites underlain by high radon-
potential category rocks
 Nearly all of the ground-
water samples from the
bedrock aquifer in New
Hampshire fail to meet the
proposed USEPA standard of
300 pCi/L when multimedia
mitigation is not
implemented.
 All of the water samples from
the domestic and public-
supply bedrock wells in the
high-radon potential
exceeded 300 pCi/L;
Radon in Bedrock Aquifer Wells (Public)
 Many (40 and 30 percent) of the ground-
water samples from the bedrock aquifer
from domestic and public-supply
bedrock wells, respectively, also fail to
meet the proposed standard of 4,000
pCi/L (when multimedia mitigation is
implemented).
 In the high radon-potential category, 70
and 50 percent of the water samples
from the domestic and public supply
bedrock wells, respectively, exceeded
4,000 pCi/L; in the medium radon-
potential category, 34 and 27 percent
from the domestic and public-supply
bedrock wells exceeded 4,000 pCi/L,
respectively; and in the low radon-
potential category, 17 and 16 percent
from the domestic and public-supply
bedrock wells exceeded 4,000 pCi/L,
respectively.
Radon Treatment
 By far the preferred treatment is to reduce radon
exposure immediately through the installation of
water filters or removal from the source. Since radon
body burden is so difficult to reduce after exposure,
the best course of action is to prevent radon contact
in the first place..

 Suggestion: Consider having wells tested for Radon

and if present install a water filter. One method to
remove Radon in drinking water is through the use
of a granular activated carbon filter at the point-of –
entry.
 New Hampshire Arsenic Levels
 In New Hampshire in
2002, domestic wells
served roughly 40% of
the population, and about
10% of these contained
arsenic concentrations in
the controversial range of
10 to 50 micrograms/l.
 New Hampshire, along
with other states in New
England, has among the
highest bladder cancer
mortality rates in the
country.
 New England Bladder Cancer Rates

New Hampshire
Highest Bladder
Cancer Mortalities
compared to New
England.

Squares are
Superfund
Sites containing
Arsenic!
Arsenic in Bedrock Aquifer

 Cumulative
Frequency Plot
of Arsenic
 Grey area on left
of chart shows
the only samples
less than the
MCL (Maximum
Contaminant
Level of 10 Ug
Arsenic
Distribution
Arsenic Treatment
 By far the preferred treatment is to reduce arsenic
exposure immediately through the installation of
water filters or removal from the source. Since
arsenic body burden is so difficult to reduce after
exposure, the best course of action is to prevent
arsenic contact in the first place..

 Suggestion: Consider having wells tested for Arsenic

and if present install a water filter. One method to
remove arsenic in drinking water is through the use
of a reverse osmosis filter at the point of use (under
sink) or point-of–entry.
Air Force Announces Health Study Amid
Concerns About Cancer – AP Jan 13, 2020
 Officials at an Air National Guard base in New Hampshire
announced that the Air Force will conduct a study amid
concerns about exposure to carcinogens at the base.
 The occupation health study will take place at the Pease
Air National Guard Base
 The study will examine personnel records of service
members that were assigned to the base between
January 1970 and December 2019 in order to determine if
there was a higher incidence of cancer among those
who were assigned to the guard base and the former
Pease Air Force base.
 The women [widows] believe people who worked at the
base suffered an usually high number of cancer and
other health ailments.
PEASE AIR BASE
 Cancer Clusters - 2019
 Group calls for ‘real investigation’ of NH’s high cancer rates!
 The petition, which can be viewed at www.safewaternh.org, calls on
Gov. Chris Sununu and state Department of Health and Human Services
officials to find out why “our kids are dying at the highest rate in the
nation.”
 issue a “clear and concise evaluation of the pediatric brain and central
nervous system cancers in the Seacoast cancer cluster area
 Officials believe firefighting foam contaminated the Haven well at Pease
International Tradeport.
 The Agency for Toxic Substances And Disease Registry states PFAS
exposure can increase cancer risks, lower birth weights, harm the liver,
thyroid and pancreas and increase cholesterol levels.
 New Hampshire also has the highest rates of breast, bladder and
esophageal cancer in the nation.

 jmcmenemy@seacoastonline.com Aug 8, 2019 at 6:24 PM

Breast Cancer Incidence
 Action Urged on Cancer Cluster -2018
 the state’s congressional delegation is calling for the Trump
administration to find out what is making New Hampshire children
sick in light of a recent report indicating the state has the highest
pediatric cancer rate in the country.
 The recent Centers for Disease C to their concerns about the
impact that exposure to PFAS chemicals in drinking water could
“have on the health and well-being of Granite Staters.”
 Thousands of people working at Pease International Tradeport,
along with children and infants who attended two day-care
centers there, were exposed to multiple PFAS chemicals from
contaminated water in the city-owned Haven well.
 Officials believe the PFAS came from firefighting foam used at the
former Air Force base, which is a Superfund cleanup site.
Portsmouth shut down the well in May 2014 after the Air Force
found high levels of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, or PFOS, in the
well.
 The EPA in May 2016 set permanent health advisories for PFOS and
perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA at 70 parts per trillion.
jmcmenemy@seacoastonline.com Posted Jul 17, 2018 at 7:38 PM
Jeff McMenemy
 Cancer Assessment 2017
 New Hampshire State Epidemiologist Dr. Ben Chan said the
survey included responses from parents of 40 patients of children
who have one of the two rare cancers.
 Dr. Chan said only seven patients [out of 40] responded – two
lived in one of the ten Seacoast towns where the cases were
reported
 "You can't draw conclusions from two people, that's crazy," Rep.
Messmer said. "You can't do that, but there is a commonality
between them: they both have the same water source."
 State health officials say the survey was not a scientific study but
only an assessment of information on the cancer cases.
Vivien Leigh (NEWS CENTER Maine), Dustin Wlodkowski
9:42 PM EDT May 11, 2017
 Seabrook Nuclear Station Accident Analysis
 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two
emergency planning zones around nuclear power
plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a
radius of 10 miles (16 km), concerned primarily
with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne
radioactive contamination, and an ingestion
pathway zone of about 50 miles (80 km),
concerned primarily with ingestion of food and
liquid contaminated by radioactivity.[23] The 2010
U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of
Seabrook was 118,747, an increase of 10.1
percent in a decade. The 2010 U.S. population
within 50 miles (80 km) was 4,315,571, an
increase of 8.7 percent since 2000. Cities within
50 miles include Boston (40 miles to city
center).[24]
 Seabrook Relicensing
 In February 2012, there were safety
concerns about concrete degradation at the
plant which is currently experiencing
aging-related problems 22 years into its
operating license. Concrete surrounding
an electric control tunnel at the nuclear
plant had lost almost 22 percent of its
strength and was showing signs of
an alkali–silica reaction (ASR) because of
more than a decade of ground-water
infiltration, according to an NRC inspection
report released in May 2011. A growing
chorus of local politicians were "urging the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission to halt the
relicensing process for Seabrook Station until
a long-term solution is implemented".
 Seabrook Safety Concerns

 In 2005, a security fence

installed by a subcontracted
engineering firm the previous
year failed a Nuclear Regulatory
Commission inspection and was
declared inoperable.[6] In 2006,
the owner of the plant, FPL
Energy Seabrook LLC, was fined
$65,000 by the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission since
"both design of the system and
testing procedures did not
adhere to NRC guidelines".[7]
 Concrete degradation forces call for closing
of Seabrook Plant
 Four city councilors are urging the
head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission to close the Seabrook
nuclear reactor.
 they "firmly believe the Seabrook
nuclear reactor poses an
unacceptable risk to the lives and
livelihood of the people of
Newburyport and New England.“
 To date, Seabrook is the only U.S.
nuclear plant were ASR has been
discovered," the councilors wrote to
Burns. "This should have triggered
caution ... but the NRC failed, and
continues to fail, to protect the public
by ordering NextEra (the owner) to
shut down the reactor while this
adverse condition is fully assessed." Eagle Tribune By Dyke Hendrickson Staff writer Sep 9, 2015
 Seabrook Nuclear Station Evac Plan
 In September 2017, activist Steve
Comley Sr. along with his non-profit "We
The People" paid for an
electronic billboard in Salisbury,
Massachusetts allegedly warning of the
absence of an evacuation plan in the
event of an accident at Seabrook
Station.[20]
 In January 2018, the town of Merrimac,
Massachusetts joined half a dozen other
communities "calling for the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission to hold a
hearing on whether the Seabrook, New
Hampshire, nuclear power plant's
evacuation plan can be effectively
implemented".[21
 Coakley Landfill N. Hampton NH
 Situated on the southernmost portion of a 92- acre parcel, the
landfill itself is approximately 27 acres and received municipal and
industrial wastes from 1972 to 1982.
 From 1982 to 1985, when land-filling activities terminated, the Site
received incinerator residue from the Portsmouth Refuse-to-Energy
Facility at Pease Air Force Base.
 In 1983, the State received a complaint from residents, living near
the southeastern corner of the landfill, about the quality of water
coming from their water supply wells. Water samples were taken
and the results of the chemical analyses reported the presence of
volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in several residential wells.
 Water lines from three local utility companies were promptly
extended into the area and, by the end of 1983, most of the
homes and businesses east of the Site were connected to public
water supplies.
 The subsequent remedial investigation and feasibility study (RI/FS)
was completed in 1989. The findings of the RI/FS identified the
landfill as the source of contamination in local surface waters,
groundwater and, to an unknown extent, in wetlands to the west.
 Coakley Landfill Status

“The EPA also says it still can’t be

sure how Coakley’s multi-material cap,
installed years ago, may be
contributing to PFAS contamination.
Some tests last year suggested this…

compost and sludge from several

locations may have been used in the
topsoil that covers the cap. Those soils
can often contain PFAS.” Coakley Landfill is seen in spring 2017.
CREDIT ANNIE ROPEIK / NHPR
WHAT ARE PFOAs?
 How can PFAS affect human health?
 Studies conducted in highly exposed
communities have shown that certain
PFAS
 may have effects on the:
 Gastrointestinal System
Ulcerative colitis (an inflammatory bowel
disease that causes inflammation in the
digestive tract)
 Liver
Liver damage, abnormal fat metabolism, high
cholesterol
 Kidney
Kidney cancer and chronic kidney disease
 Cardiovascular system
High blood pressure in pregnant women
 Immune system
Decreased response to vaccines
 Reproductive system
Testicular cancer and decreased fertility
 Endocrine system
Thyroid disease
 Development
Reduced birth weight
HOW ARE PFOAs USED
 Coakley Landfill Status (cont.)

EPA criticized for handling of Coakley

contamination
GREENLAND -- The Environmental Protection
Agency’s Office of the Inspector General got an
earful at its “listening session” Wednesday night.
Several speakers blasted the EPA for what they
saw as its failure to force the Coakley Landfill
Group to clean up the toxic Superfund site in
Greenland and North Hampton..State Rep. Renny
Cushing, D-Hampton, shared concerns “about
the oversight of the EPA” in regard to the Coakley Coakley Landfill is seen in spring 2018.
Landfill Group... CREDIT ANNIE ROPEIK / NHPR

Jun. 6, 2019
Coakley Landfill Superfund Site
Recent PFAS Data at COAKLEY
Religion in New Hampshire
 Questions for Your Candidates &
Representatives
 1. What is the Status of the Seacoast Cancer Cluster Study?
 2. Will There Be A House-to-house Health Survey Of Impacted Neighborhoods?
 3 How Much Money has been allocated to the Seacoast Cancer Cluster Problem at
and when will the study be completed?
 3. Have the Citizens Of New Hampshire Been Advised To Have Their Water Tested For
Traces Of Radon And Arsenic? Have They Been Advised To Have A Radon Survey Of
Their Air Where Granite Is Present Underneath Their Homes?
 4. Have Warning Letters been sent to all at-risk servicemen and their families who
might have been exposed to cancer causing substances at Pease Air National Guard
and Air Force Base? Will their medical treatments be covered like they were at Camp
Lejeune Base in NC?
 Questions for Your Regulators

 1. Why do New Hampshire Residents pay 50% more for Natural

Gas and 60% more tor Electricity than the National Avg Price?
 2. What incentives are needed to accelerate the use of wind
power as coal plants become obsolete?
 3. Are funds available to help low-income families install and
maintain water filters for Radon, Arsenic and Lead?
 4. Have residents been advised about the PFOA containing
products which maybe found in their homes and throughout
their neighborhoods?
SUGGESTION: The Best way to improve the
conditions for NEW HAMPSHIRITES is to have more
people engaged in government and motivated to
vote. This can only happen if they are informed of
the challenges and opportunities which lie ahead.

Consider a non-partisan voting drive which

emphasizes that every vote counts and the goal in
NEW HAMPSHIRE is to improve the health and
welfare of all concerned citizens in the state!