[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Former Suffolk County Army Air Field (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Old Suffolk Army air field to be tested to pollutants

BY JENNIFER SMITH
Long Island Newsday (NY)
August 26, 2008

The woods west of Francis S. Gabreski Airport are still now, their green 
quiet broken only by hikers or the rumble of errant all-terrain vehicles.

But during World War II this isolated stretch of pine barrens in 
Westhampton and Speonk rang with gunfire and explosions from military 
practice ranges that made up 3,120 acres of the former Suffolk County 
Army Air Field.

More than six decades later, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to 
test soil and groundwater there for traces of rocket fuel, TNT, lead and 
other harmful substances dating from its wartime use.

The tests, scheduled to begin next year, are part of a national effort 
to address potential contamination at thousands of former defense 
properties, said Helen Edge, the corps' project manager for the site. 
The range complex is one of 17 such sites across Long Island where the 
corps has identified potential hazards ranging from unexploded ordnance 
to abandoned storage tanks and unsafe buildings.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-limuni265816804aug26,0,1223450.story

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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
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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