2016 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 19:07:57 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Hempstead sues over Bethpage facility contamination
 
Hempstead sues Navy, Grumman, others over water contamination

By Emily C. Dooley
Long Island Newsday (NY)
July 6, 2016  

Hempstead Town is suing the Navy, Northrop Grumman, operators of a former dry cleaner and others in federal court for a minimum of $50 million over groundwater contamination that forced the closure of water wells in Levittown.

America’s most populous town filed the lawsuit June 30 in U.S. District Court in Central Islip claiming that negligent and reckless behavior and lack of proper controls contaminated drinking water supplies in the town-run Levittown water district, which serves 50,000 customers.

The town discovered low levels of the chemical Freon and volatile organic chemicals, including the degreaser and possible carcinogen trichloroethylene, or TCE, at two well sites in July 2013.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/hempstead-sues-navy-grumman-others-over-water-contamination-1.12012268

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Lenny Siegel
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