[CPEO-BIF] Lockheed Martin groundwater, Lake Success, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC proposal requires Lockheed Martin to keep treating contaminated  
groundwater in Lake Success

by JENNIFER BARRIOS
Long Island Newsday (NY)
June 18, 2014

Lockheed Martin would continue treating contaminated groundwater at  
and around a North Hempstead property it once owned under a plan  
proposed this month by the state Department of Environmental  
Conservation.

The 94-acre property at 1111 Marcus Ave., which sits in the Village  
of Lake Success and the Town of North Hempstead, had been home to  
defense contractors and is now a state Superfund site.

Water contaminated with solvents and oils was dumped for decades into  
dry wells on the property until 1978, according to the DEC. The  
property was purchased in 1996 by Lockheed Martin, which inherited  
responsibility for cleaning up the contamination.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/dec-proposal-requires-lockheed- 
martin-to-keep-treating-contaminated-groundwater-in-north- 
hempstead-1.8493824

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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