From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 4 Mar 2015 18:13:10 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Suffolk County Air Force Base (NY) |
Wednesday Meeting Will Focus On Remaining Contamination At Westhampton Airport By Alexa Gorman Southampton Press (NY) March 2, 2015 Representatives of the State Department of Environmental Conservation will hold a public hearing on the evening of Wednesday, March 4, to discuss their plans to remove remaining contamination at the site of a former dog kennel at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton. Soil samples from the site, located on the eastern edge of the airport that sits off Old Riverhead Road, showed high levels of polychlorinated biphenyl, commonly known as PCBs. DEC officials have stated that the site was used to bury inert wastes, such as office furniture, as well as electrical distribution equipment, including transformers and capacitors, when the former Air Force base was being deactivated in 1970. … For the entire article, see http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/Westhampton-Beach-Surrounding-Areas/98146/Wednesday-Meeting-Will-Focus-On-Remaining-Contamination-At-Westhampton-Airport -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope Street Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545 Fax: 650-961-8918 LSiegel@cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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