[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, CONTRACTORS: Northrop Grumman Navy Weapons Plant, Calverton, NY

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County: No telling where Grumman pollution ends


BY MICHAEL WHITE
Riverhead News Review (NY)
July 4, 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."

"We haven't done that yet," he said.

Health department officials, whose initiative was launched last summer 
based on previous -- but limited -- findings by the U.S. Navy, are also 
troubled by the potential depth of the plume. As deep as they could 
drill in Calverton -- 115 feet -- county workers continued to find 
traces of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, in the groundwater.

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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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