From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | 11 Sep 2007 18:21:26 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Hicksville, NY fuel-rod site |
Contaminated Hicksville site spurs suit BY MARK HARRINGTON Long Island Newsday (NY) September 10, 2007Two employees who worked at a Hicksville magazine distributorship that sat atop a contaminated former nuclear-fuel production plant have sued Verizon Communications Inc. after contracting illnesses they say were related to radiological and other toxins released at the site. Verizon predecessor GTE inherited liability for the site from onetime subsidiary Sylvania Electric Products, which operated the fuel-rod facility in the 1950s and 1960s. Gerard DePascale and Liam Neville, both of whom formerly worked for Magazine Distributors Inc. when it was located on Cantiague Rock Road in Hicksville, charge in a suit filed last month that Verizon and its predecessor companies failed to "warn or prevent the use of toxic chemicals and radioactive substances" in their workplace. They worked at the distributor from the early 1990s to early 2000s. The site, now being supervised by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, remains under investigation after a partial cleanup. ... For the entire article, see http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bznuke105367985sep10,0,6507478.story -- Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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