[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, CONTRACTORS: "U.S. Government Expecting Long Island [NY] Residents To Pay For Navy’s Toxic Mistake"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. Government Expecting Long Island Residents To Pay For Navy’s  
Toxic Mistake

Carolyn Gusoff
CBS TV-2 News (New York, NY)
October 11, 2012

BETHPAGE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) - Many residents are being asked to foot  
the bill for the government's dumping of toxic waste into the Long  
Island soil. And to make matters worse, the contamination is on the  
move.

It’s bad enough to have to worry about living above a toxic plume of  
water, now folks in Bethpage have to also foot the clean-up bill, CBS  
2's Carolyn Gusoff reported Thursday.

"Everything trickling down to me and it’s not a mess that I made,"  
resident Ryan Clampfer said.

The Clampfers, like other Bethpage residents, are being billed $100  
more per year by their water district.

...

For the entire story, see
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/11/u-s-government-expecting-long- 
island-residents-to-pay-for-navys-toxic-mistake/



For Sen. Schumer's press release and letter, see
http://www.schumer.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=337793&;

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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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