[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Another meeting planned to address Navy-Grumman plume, Bethpage, NY

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Grumman Groundwater Contamination to be Addressed at Meeting

By Chris Boyle
Bellmore Patch (NY)
July 17, 2012

A forum will be held to address concerns about cleanup of toxic  
groundwater at the former Navy aerospace site in Bethpage that is  
flowing southward and threatening to contaminate the drinking water  
supplies of residents in Bellmore.

...

The meeting comes as concerned residents are pressing the New York  
State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to make sure  
potentially cancerous toxins from the Grumman site removed before  
affecting water supply wells serving Wantagh, Seaford, Massapequa and  
Levittown. The public comment period on the state’s plan to address  
the Grumman cleanup ends on July 30.

The plume of wastewater at the Bethpage site that is posing a risk to  
residents in southeast Nassau County derives from waste that was  
buried and covered by Grumman going back to the 1950's. One of these  
plumes, called Operable Unit 3, or OU3, was discovered 22 years ago  
and is currently threatening to contaminate the drinking water  
supplies of residents in Wantagh, Seaford, Massapequa, Levittown,  
Bellmore and Merrick. Thursday's meeting at the Seaford Fire  
Department headquarters is being hosted by the Seaford Harbor Civic  
Association, Nassau Coalition of Civic Associations and the  
Massapequa Water District.


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For the entire article, see
http://bellmore.patch.com/articles/grumman-groundwater-contamination- 
to-be-addressed-at-seaford-meeting-fd7c6aa3

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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