[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, CONTRACTORS: Calverton Navy Plant (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic plume poses threat to Peconic River

BY MICHAEL WHITE
Riverhead News-Review (NY)
March 19, 2009

There is a decades-old groundwater plume of volatile organic chemicals 
that is more than a quarter-mile wide and could stretch as far as a 
half-mile south of the former Northrop Grumman weapons plant in 
Calverton, the News-Review has learned. Traces of the toxic compounds 
have already been found in the Peconic River, and local authorities and 
community members are concerned that much greater concentrations of 
chemicals could foul the river within a few years -- if the U.S. Navy 
doesn't act swiftly to clean it.

...

One drinking-water well, on property belonging to the Peconic River 
Sportsman's Club, just south of the former Grumman site and potentially 
in the heart of the plume, has already been shut down due to VOC 
contamination. Other wells there are being monitored by the health 
department and the Navy, Mr. Rapiejko said.

There are no homes or other drinking water wells in the area of the 
suspected contamination.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.timesreview.com/NR/stories/R031909_plume_mw

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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