[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Bethpage [NY] plume: Residents file notice of lawsuit"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bethpage plume: Residents file notice of lawsuit
They want a federal judge to order a probe into contamination issues.

By Emily C. Dooley
Long Island Newsday (NY)
October 28, 2017 

A group of residents who allege the Navy and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation have failed to adequately investigate the presence of radioactive materials in Bethpage has put the agencies on notice they intend to sue and seek the intervention of a federal court.

Long Island Pure Water Ltd. last month sent formal notices of intent to sue to the secretary of the Navy, the state DEC commissioner and others, saying the contamination is “causing an imminent and substantial endangerment to health and the environment in Long Island’s sole source aquifer and the drinking water” supplies of Bethpage, South Farmingdale, Massapequa and other communities.

The group, which formed in August to promote water quality protection and has about 40 members, wants a federal judge to order an investigation into radioactive contamination, launch a study to evaluate remedial efforts to reduce risk to public health, and name a master coordinator to oversee the work.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/environment-bethpage-water-radium-1.14655085

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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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