[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Navy-Grumman Bethpage, NY "Toxic Plume Creeps Closer To Contaminating More Public Drinking Water Supplies"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bethpage's Toxic Plume Creeps Closer To Contaminating More Public  
Drinking Water Supplies

By Christopher Twarowski
Long Island Press (NY)
June 28, 2012

John Caruso points to an orange pushpin on a poster-size map propped  
up against a wall inside Massapequa Water District's conference room.

Unlike the charts one might expect to find in the headquarters of a  
water district - perhaps delineating the mileage of its distribution  
system or the locations of its pumping stations - this map and  
several others bear massive, multi-colored splotches smeared across  
their tops.

...

"We had the Navy install a monitoring well here, and that monitoring  
well now shows that at 150 feet, the Grumman plume is there," he  
tells the Press. "That's within eight-tenths of a mile of our wells."

...

For the entire article and multi-media package, go to
http://www.longislandpress.com/specialreport/ripple-effect/ripple- 
effect.php
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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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