[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Schumer criticizes Defense Dept. for taking own water contamination tests" at Stewart Base (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Schumer criticizes Defense Dept. for taking own water contamination tests

By Leonard Sparks 
Middletown Times Herald-Record (NY)
May 26, 2017

TOWN OF NEWBURGH – Sen. Charles Schumer railed against the Department of Defense on Friday for undertaking its own tests of contamination at Stewart Air National Guard Base instead of using state results showing the base is responsible for the toxic chemical found in the City of Newburgh’s main water supply.

The military claims that its own soil and water samples are needed to confirm the presence and source of perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, at the base before an environmental cleanup can begin.

But Schumer says the DoD and Air Force are not prevented by federal law from using state results and are delaying a much-watched cleanup process that began when the state added the base to its Superfund list of contaminated properties last August

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For the entire article, see
http://www.recordonline.com/news/20170526/schumer-criticizes-defense-dept-for-taking-own-water-contamination-tests

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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