[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Calverton Navy Plant (NY) groundwater testing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

More groundwater testing needed in Calverton

BY MICHAEL WHITE
Riverhead News-Review (NY)
July 23, 2009

More extensive surface water sampling.

A better definition of the contamination's eastern and southern boundaries.

The testing of two homes to ensure there are no traces of chemical vapor 
intrusion from soil.

Those are just some of the requests that state and county government 
leaders are planning to present to the U.S. Navy next week in connection 
with a plume of chemical-laden groundwater south of the former Northrop 
Grumman plant in Calverton.

In response to mounting pressure from federal lawmakers to get the Navy 
to re-examine its long-held position that the pollution is dissipating 
naturally, the officials called a meeting last week to present what was 
described as "a unified voice" to the Navy.

But they will stop short of demanding that the Navy act now to begin 
cleaning the plume, the News-Review has learned.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.timesreview.com/NR/stories/R072309_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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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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