Environmental Memoir: Saving Hodgson Brook

Hodgson Brook at the former Pease Air Force Base in Portsmouth, N.H., was an oily mess for decades, mainly from airport operations-linked chemical contamination. /Hodgson Brook Watershed Restoration Plan image

I helped save a brook that the Air Force nearly destroyed.

I first became aware of groundwater pollution at Pease Air Force Base while working as night editor at the Concord Monitor at the turn of the century.

The last time I was aware of groundwater contamination at Pease was in 2013, when I was the first to see the damage.