[CPEO-MEF] Hicksville, NY fuel-rod site

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Contaminated Hicksville site spurs suit

BY MARK HARRINGTON
Long Island Newsday (NY)
September 10, 2007

Two 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.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bznuke105367985sep10,0,6507478.story

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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>
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