[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, CONTRACTORS: Delegation insists Navy clean Calverton (NY) plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'Cleanup is needed' in Calverton

BY MICHAEL WHITE
Riverhead News-Review (NY)
July 9, 2009

Saying "new action is sorely needed," a trio of New York representatives 
in Washington is urging the U.S. Navy to scrap its long-held theory that 
chemicals in groundwater south of its Calverton property are 
disappearing on their own.

Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as Rep. Timothy 
Bishop, are insisting that the Navy pay for all cleanup and monitoring 
of the pollution plume -- the heart of which is feared to be heading 
straight for the Peconic River -- and reimburse Suffolk County for its 
efforts in trying to better gauge it.

"In particular, we are very concerned that the end of this plume has 
still not been identified," the representatives wrote in a letter sent 
to the Navy yesterday. "Suffolk County's monitoring initiative has 
exposed glaring holes in the current monitoring and remediation plan and 
new action is sorely needed."

The letter comes less than a week after the Riverhead News-Review 
acquired and published results of the county Department of Health 
Services' second round of groundwater testing near the Navy-owned land, 
the site of a Northrop Grumman weapons plant that closed in 1996.

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For the entire article, see
http://www2.timesreview.com/NR/stories/R070909_Plume_mw


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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
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