LITCHFIELD, N.H.—When Tracy Madden heard her water could be contaminated with the potentially cancer-causing chemical PFOA, she started thinking about all the ailments she’s endured over the years that her doctors couldn’t diagnose.
The 49-year-old property manager from Litchfield, New Hampshire, thought back to the nerve pain that continues to nag her as well as the skin problems that won’t go away.
She’s thinking it could be tied to PFOA, a chemical in Teflon coating that Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics once used in its plant just across the river in Merrimack.
“It’s absolutely overwhelming especially when I look at health issues I have been having and am having,” said Madden, after a community meeting where she learned her street will be among those where wells will be tested for PFOA contamination.
