[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Aggressive action overdue on Bethpage [NY] plume, "

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Aggressive action overdue on Bethpage plume

Editorial
Long Island Newsday
March 1, 2015 


How long is 30 years?

Long enough for a newborn to become a parent. Long enough for nearly eight presidential terms. But not long enough, apparently, to corral and clean the Northrop Grumman plume in Bethpage.

It's an awful mess, and continues to get worse. For decades, groundwater contamination has been spreading from the defense manufacturing facility once operated by Grumman and the U.S. Navy. The state Department of Environmental Conservation has been working with Grumman and the Navy to contain the plume and clean it. But those efforts have been insufficient.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/editorial/aggressive-action-overdue-on-bethpage-plume-editorial-1.9986675

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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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