[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, VOCs: Speonk, New York solvent plume

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Residents have more questions than answers regarding Speonk Solvent Plume

By Beth Young
Southampton Press (NY)
June 18, 2008	
	

Several dogs on Diane Renna's street, Hickory Bend in Speonk, have died 
of cancer that attacked their paws and hearts. Meg Wermersbach, who 
lives a few blocks away, was told by a veterinarian that her dog might 
have been poisoned when it became sick after playing in a nearby 
watering hole.

...

Mr. Ackerson said he smells strange vapors in his basement, and both Ms. 
Renna and Ms. Wermersbach note that they often smell unusual odors in 
their neighborhood. They also said that several of their neighbors have 
died of cancer in recent years.

What they also have in common is that they all live along the edge of 
documented plume of polluted groundwater - it is contaminated with an 
assortment of cleaning solvents - the source of which is still unknown 
and could date back to World War II. They also feel rebuffed by 
government officials, namely representatives of the New York State 
Department of Environmental Conservation, who they believe are not 
taking their health concerns seriously.

...

Mr. DeCandia said he has just received a World War II-era map of the 
site between Old Country Road and the Speonk-Riverhead Road, near where 
the contamination appears to have originated. He said the area, which 
includes the land Mr. Datre plans to subdivide, had been used by the 
military for weapons testing during World War II, and that several 
access roads had been built into the woods that have since become overgrown.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.southamptonpress.com/story_detail.cfm?cat=shnews&id=149749

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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
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