From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Tue, 26 Dec 2017 20:29:58 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] "State Will Take Action On Contaminated Long Island Ground Water" at Navy/Grumman Bethpage (NY) site |
Cuomo: State Will Take Action On Contaminated Long Island Ground Water CBS New York December 21, 2017 BETHPAGE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — On Thursday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that New York state will clean up decades old ground water contamination that’s spreading under several Long Island communities. The U.S. Navy admitted responsibility for the pollution, but has yet to remedy it. Sammy Moussa prepares food in a hot truck in the shadow of the Grumman property in Bethpage. He makes it with bottled water, and doesn’t dare use tap. “Never. I don’t drink it, I don’t give it to customers,” he said. That’s because for decades a toxic plume of ground water has been flowing beneath the land where decades ago, the Navy and Grumman dumped contaminants. For years, the public water has been treated to remove toxins, but now Governor Cuomo said he is launching a complete fix, no longer waiting for the polluters to act. … For the entire article, see http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/12/21/long-island-contaminated-ground-water/ -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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