[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Navy Agrees to Plan to Reimburse Bethpage [NY] Water District …"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 28, 2013

AFTER SCHUMER PUSH, NAVY AGREES TO PLAN TO REIMBURSE BETHPAGE WATER DISTRICT FOR PURIFYING TREATMENT PLANTS; WILL PREVENT WATER BILLS FROM SKYROCKETING FOR ALMOST TEN THOUSAND CUSTOMERS

Water District Borrowed $14M to Build Water Treatment Plants to Purify Water Contaminated By Toxic Bethpage Plume; Schumer Relentlessly Called on Navy to Fully Reimburse Community

Will Save Almost 10,000 Ratepayers From Unnecessary Extra Payments

Schumer Joins Community Leaders, and Local Ratepayers, To Sign Settlement Offer Made By Navy and Department Of Justice – The Last Major Hurdle is Now Cleared, Only Small Steps Remaining



U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today announced that the U.S. Navy has offered a settlement that will result in them reimbursing the Bethpage Water District (BWD) for all the money it has spent on equipment and treatment plants to purify drinking water contaminated by the Bethpage plume, and will also pay for 30 years of operating costs. In October, Schumer urged the Navy to reimburse BWD after the district had to issue bonds of almost $14 million for the construction and operation of the equipment to treat the drinking water. Repaying those bonds would have cost approximately $3000 per household if the district was not reimbursed. Schumer today announced that the Navy will reimburse BWD 100 percent of the costs, saving ratepayers thousands of dollars in unnecessary costs.

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For the entire release, see
http://www.schumer.senate.gov/Newsroom/record.cfm?id=341213

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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