[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Congressman: "Navy should take over treatment at closed Bethpage [NY] wells"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Suozzi: Navy should take over treatment at closed Bethpage wells
The water district has a $17 million plan to phase out five drinking-water wells at three sites and build new facilities.

By Emily C. Dooley
Long Island Newsday (NY)
May 10, 2018 

Rep. Thomas Suozzi on Thursday urged the secretary of the Navy to buy three well sites from the Bethpage Water District, a move that could provide financial resources to the district and continue treatment of contaminated groundwater in the area.

Earlier this week, the water district told residents about a $17 million plan to phase out use of five drinking-water wells at the three sites and build new supply facilities outside the boundaries of plumes emanating from a site that the Navy and what is now Northrop Grumman operated from the 1930s to the 1990s. 

The Navy and Northrop Grumman researched, tested and manufactured airplanes and space-exploration equipment at a 600-acre site in the hamlet. But their operations also led to lingering soil and groundwater contamination.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/bethpage-wells-water-contamination-navy-1.18484506

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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
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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