Students analyze data to solve a mystery and identify a potential polluter.
No tips have been posted at this time. Thirty-seven public water supply wells have been contaminated with industrial chemicals in New Hampshire. The three largest incidents of leaking underground storage tanks in NH contaminated 56 private wells serving 130 residences, businesses, several churches, and an elementary school. Since 1983, the NH Department of Transportation has replaced more than 300 private wells contaminated be the use or storage of road salt. In 1983 and 1984 the Town of Milford lost two wells to chemical contamination from multiple industrial sources.