[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, CONTRACTORS: Northrop Grumman plume in Calverton (N_Y)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County: No telling where Grumman pollution ends

BY MICHAEL WHITE
Riverhead News-Review (Mattituck, NY)
July 2, 2009

A plume of contaminated groundwater that stretches south of the former 
Northrop Grumman plant in Calverton may be much larger -- and run much 
deeper -- than originally suspected, according to the Suffolk County 
health department.

"We found contamination in all the new wells," said Andrew Rapiejko, a 
health department geologist who oversaw a second round of testing this 
spring near the former naval weapons facility.

"Typically, you would like to see the end of a plume; you drill until 
you get a couple of wells that are clean and that's when you know you've 
found the end."


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For the entire article, see
http://www2.timesreview.com/NR/stories/R070209_Plume_mw
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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