[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Schumer, Suffolk officials: Feds must pay Gabreski [NY] cleanup costs"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Schumer, Suffolk officials: Feds must pay Gabreski cleanup costs

By Joie Tyrrell and Emily C. Dooley   
Long Island Newsday (NY)
September 8, 2017 

Sen. Chuck Schumer called Friday on the U.S. Department of Defense to reimburse Suffolk County and the Suffolk County Water Authority nearly $5 million in costs to clean up contamination stemming from Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton Beach.

“I am here to give a message to DOD: Pay up,” Schumer (D-N.Y.) said at a news conference in Hauppauge, standing with Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone andofficials with the Suffolk County Water Authority — all of whom said the Defense Department is responsible for the costs.

Negotiations between the water authority and federal officials to cover cleanup, hook-ups of private wells to the public system and treatment over five years were put on hold for review earlier this year by the Defense Department, according to an email the agency sent to the water authority in May.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/schumer-suffolk-officials-feds-must-pay-gabreski-cleanup-costs-1.14123594

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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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