Two years after cleanup work finished at a former industrial site in Milford, General Electric has agreed to pay $3.2 million to cover the work after being found liable by the Environmental Protection Agency. 

The Fletcher’s Paint Works site manufactured and sold paints and stains from 1949 to 1991.  

The two-acre facility on Elm Street and a storage area nearby on Mill Street contaminated the soil, groundwater and nearby Souhegan River with PCBs and solvents. The Environmental Protection Agency excavated and disposed about 32,000 cubic feet of contaminated soil from the two sites in 2015 and 2016. Restoration work was completed in 2017. 

As of 2018, however, New Hampshire Public Radio reported federal officials were still telling residents not to eat fish caught in the Souhegan.