From the Eagle Tribune:<\/p>\n
Six times too high: Chemicals in Londonderry water<\/strong><\/p>\n Cancer-causing chemical found at Londonderry gravel pit after dumping<\/p>\n By Ray Carbone\u00a05\/2\/2016<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n LONDONDERRY \u2014 The groundwater at a gravel pit on the northwest corner of town contains more than six times the state’s recommended level of perchloroethylene (PCE), a harmful chemical that can cause cancer in humans, according to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.<\/p>\n The gravel pit, which is no longer in operation, is owned by Manchester-based real estate development company Brady Sullivan. The toxic chemical is likely linked to more than 600 tons of construction materials dumped\u00a0at the 6 Roundstone Drive site\u00a0in 2014. The materials came from a major mill renovation project the company was doing on another of its properties, now called the Mill West complex in downtown Manchester.<\/p>\n Brady Sullivan is the same business reportedly under investigation by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the federal Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly dumping materials laced with asbestos and lead at the Pacific Mill in Lawrence, also from the Mill West complex. The corporation is known across New England for renovating old mills into residential and commercial properties.<\/p>\n The DES first became concerned about possible problems at the Londonderry site in 2014, after receiving a report from McKibben Environmental Consultants, a Keene-based company, on behalf of Brady Sullivan,\u00a0DES spokesman Jim Martin\u00a0said. The report indicated that 645 tons of soil that contained “volatile organic compounds,” which can be harmful if inhaled, had been moved by Brady Sullivan from the Mill West property to the Londonderry gravel pit near\u00a0the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport,<\/p>\n “It had PCE,” Martin explained, “although it was at a very low level.”<\/p>\n The problem was that Brady Sullivan took the soil off the original site in Manchester.<\/p>\n