[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Bethpage (NY) Navy-Grumman plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plume Keeps On Flowing
Massapequa Water District holds informational meeting

By Frank Rizzo 
Massapequa Observer (NY)
August 24, 2018

A series of slides flashed on the screen, showing the spread of the toxic plume over the decades. One could not help likening it to the growth of a cancerous tumor.

Massapequa Water District (MWD) Superintendent Stan Carey summed up the response taken by the responsible parties ever since groundwater contamination was discovered at the Grumman and Navy manufacturing facilities in Bethpage in the 1970s.

“For 35 years, the approach has been extremely slow, non-responsive, not effectively managed from a global approach, [with ] no accountability,” Carey read off a presentation slide projected on a screen at the Massapequa High School auditorium. “And the plume has traveled over two miles and doubled in size.”

MWD officials had called the public meeting on July 26 to discuss the Navy-Grumman Plume, the toxic stew that is contaminating Long Island’s sole drinking water aquifer and became subject to investigation in the 1980s and remediation in recent decades.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.massapequaobserver.com/plume-keeps-on-flowing-2/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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