From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Sat, 28 May 2011 12:32:46 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Pump and treat planned for Calverton (NY) Navy plant |
Navy will start pumping, treating Calverton groundwater By Michael White Riverhead News Review (NY) May 27, 2011The U.S. Navy has completed its long-anticipated Corrective Measures Study, the document that - once approved by the state - will allow the federal government to move forward with plans to clean up a massive groundwater contamination plume flowing from the former Grumman F-14 assembly plant in Calverton. It will take the Navy a while before choosing and implementing a final approach on the entire plume. But thanks to the advocacy of citizens on the Navy’s Restoration Advisory Board, or RAB committee, it was learned Tuesday the Navy is moving forward with plans to install a pump-and-treat system to prevent further contaminants from flowing south from the property, portions of which are still owned by the Navy. Contamination levels in the heart of the plume, which stretches about a third of mile along River Road, have been found to be up to 220 times above drinking water standards. ... For the entire article, seehttp://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2011/05/15706/navy-will- start-pumping-treating-calverton-groundwater-contaminants/ -- 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 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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