© 2024
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
An update has been released for the Android version of the WAMC App that addresses performance issues. Please check the Google Play Store to download and update to the latest version.

Saint-Gobain CEO: Company Will Do "Whatever It Takes" To Provide Clean Water

The Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics facility on McCaffrey Street in Hoosick Falls
Lucas Willard
/
WAMC

The CEO of a company that owns plants in three states where elevated levels of a chemical used to make Teflon coatings were found says its priority is providing safe drinking water to residents.

Tom Kinisky told The Associated Press on Friday that investigations are ongoing into how the chemical PFOA found its way into private wells near a Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire; into wells near a former one in North Bennington, Vermont; and in the Hoosick Falls, New York, water supply, where it had a plant.

Kinisky said it's premature to say whether the company, which used PFOA to make its products, was the source of the contamination. But rather than wait for the results, the company wanted to "do whatever it takes to make sure residents have clean water."

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Related Content