[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Navy-Grumman Bethpage plume, Long Island, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Grumman's toxic plume has South Shore residents eager for a solution.


By Chris Boyle
Wantagh-Seaford Patch (NY)
July 20, 2012

Officials and residents gathered at the Seaford Fire Department  
Thursday night to once again express their concern over the cleanup  
of toxic groundwater from the former Grumman site in Bethpage that's  
drifting toward South Shore water supplies.

Massapequa Water District Commissioner John Caruso gave a  
presentation at the meeting of the Nassau County Coalition of Civic  
Associations and called out the state Department of Environmental  
Conservation, saying the organization has not done enough to stop the  
environmental threat.

"What the DEC has done is allow the plume to travel over two miles  
from its origin and double in size, while all of their attempts to  
treat the contaminated water have been completely ineffective,"  
Caruso said. "In addition, when you have volatile compounds in the  
ground and you treat them, you release them into the air. So, now we  
have two problems that need to be addressed...both created by the way  
the DEC is attacking this."

Grumman owned an aircraft manufacturing plant in Bethpage until its  
closure in 1996. The company reportedly buried industrial waste on  
the grounds which eventually seeped into groundwater. These waste  
plumes have been slowly migrating southward ever since, according to  
the DEC, threatening the ground-based water supplies of multiple  
towns in its path, including Bethpage, Farmingdale, Wantagh, Seaford,  
Massapequa, Bellmore and Merrick.

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For the entire article, see
http://wantagh.patch.com/articles/water-districts-warn-of-toxic-plume- 
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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