Jason Moon

And over and over again, the people up on stage don't really have answers.

We don't know exactly what that level is.

We don't know what the levels of exposure that we're seeing are.

The question that sticks with me most from this meeting came from a woman who had lived in Merrimack for almost 30 years.

She told the crowd her husband had recently died of prostate cancer.

The gym emptied out after almost four hours.

But there still seemed to be more questions than answers.

What was this chemical?

How did it get into Merrimack's water?

What was it doing to people's bodies?

And what next?

From the start, suspicion fell on a local factory owned by the St.

Gobain Corporation.

It was actually this factory that detected PFOA in the Merrimack water supply when they tested their own taps.

That water was coming from the town's supply.

So when the company found PFOA in that water, they reported it to the state.

St.

Cobain was familiar with PFOA.

They used it at the factory.

But in letters to town officials, St.