[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Water District Completes Petition Drive" at Navy Grumman Bethpage (NY) plant

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Water District Completes Petition Drive

by Joe Scotchie
Massapequan Observer (NY)
May 25, 2012

Criticizes DEC response to groundwater situation For months, the  
Massapequa Water District has been in the forefront of the pressing  
issue of clean water on the South Shore of Long Island and especially  
as it relates to what it fears what water district officials call  
“highly toxic contaminated groundwater plume,” which they claim is  
emanating from the Navy Grumman site in Bethpage.

Recently, the water district completed its extensive petition drive,  
one that netted over 5,400 petitions. The petitions will be taken to  
Albany. The purpose, water district officials said, is to demand  
action by Governor Andrew Cuomo to take the necessary steps to have  
the polluters stop such plume.

“The Massapequa Water District has made its position clear and  
simple: the responsible parties must stop the plume from migrating  
further because the public does not want the toxic plume entering the  
districts’ water supply wells or impacting the Great South Bay,”  
water district officials stated in a release.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.antonnews.com/massapequanobserver/news/23033-water- 
district-completes-petition-drive.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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