[CPEO-BIF] Governor orders more testing of Bethpage (New York) TCE plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bethpage’s Ever-Creeping Toxic Plume

By Rashed Mian & Christopher Twarowski
LONG ISLAND PRESS (NY) 
JANUARY 28, 2016
	

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the US Navy and Northrop Grumman to provide the state and a local water district access to monitoring wells so it can test for potential contamination caused by a toxic underground plume.

Samples from the so-called “Grumman Plume”—the subject of a 2012 Long Island Pressinvestigative multimedia report exposing its continuous southward journey and disastrous public health ramifications—will be tested for hazardous carcinogens by both the state and Massapequa Water District, Cuomo’s office announced Wednesday.

“There have been too many questions about the extent of contamination caused by this plume and residents are frustrated with the lack of answers from the Navy and Northrop Grumman,” Cuomo said in a news release.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.longislandpress.com/2016/01/28/state-orders-testing-of-bethpages-toxic-plume/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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