[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Navy making good on pledge to clear water of contamination" from Calverton (NY) plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy making good on pledge to clear water of contamination

by Tim Gannon
Riverhead News-Review (NY)
April 17, 2014

A multimillion-dollar chemical treatment facility currently pumping  
toxic contaminated groundwater from the Enterprise Park at Calverton  
- left over from years of pollution at the former Grumman site - is  
meeting its goals thus far, officials said last week. And while the  
large plume is not traveling underneath the Peconic River, as feared  
when it was first reported five years ago, it will take several more  
years of treatment before it is cleaned up.

The pump-and-treat system now operating at the southern end of EPCAL  
is removing 99 percent of the contaminants in the water being  
treated, good for 19 pounds of dangerous chemicals so far, officials  
said. Installed last October, the $4.6 million system that is  
remediating a plume headed toward the Peconic River will be in  
operation for at least another two to four years - assuming all goes  
as planned.

The treatment facility is designed to clean up contaminants that were  
left behind by the Grumman Corporation when the company built and  
tested aircraft at the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant.

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For the entire article, see
http://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2014/04/53534/navy-making- 
good-on-pledge-to-clear-water-of-contamination/

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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
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