[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Navy plans treatment plant at Calverton" NY Grumman plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy plans treatment plant at Calverton

by JENNIFER SMITH
Long Island Newsday (NY)
November 4, 2011

In a cleanup milestone at the former Grumman defense plant in  
Calverton, the Navy has proposed building a treatment plant to stanch  
the flow of polluted groundwater threatening the Peconic River.

The underground plume of industrial solvents is the last big piece of  
contamination to be addressed at the Navy-owned property, where  
Grumman assembled and tested aircraft from 1954 to 1996. All but 209  
of the site's roughly 3,000 acres have since been handed over to the  
Town of Riverhead for economic redevelopment.

The Navy agreed to clean up the polluted groundwater last year, after  
Suffolk County health department tests showed the contamination was  
far more concentrated and widespread than previously thought.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/navy-plans-treatment-plant- 
at-calverton-1.3297809

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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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