[CPEO-BIF] "Grumman given park access for contaminated soil tests, " Oyster Bay, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Grumman given park access for contaminated soil tests

By Emily C. Dooley
Long Island Newsday (NY)
September 18, 2017    

The Town Board of Oyster Bay last week granted access for Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. to take soil samples and run geotechnical tests at the Bethpage Community Park ballfields, which have been closed for 15 years over soil and groundwater contamination stemming from former manufacturing operations run by the defense contractor and U.S. Navy.

The ballfields are part of a state Superfund cleanup plan overseen by the state Department of Environmental Conservation to remediate soil contamination and a groundwater plume of volatile organic chemicals emanating from the park on Stewart Avenue.

The agreement allows Northrop Grumman to access the property and requires that gamma probes be used to screen for radium at the ballfield. It also requires testing results to be shared with the town.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/grumman-given-park-access-for-contaminated-soil-tests-1.14205169

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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