[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, ENERGY DEPT: Brookhaven National Laboratory (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

How the government is removing the Brookhaven plume shows possible future for Nassau

By Paul LaRocco and David M. Schwartz
Long Island Newsday (NY)
July, 25, 2020

Long Island’s largest mass of carcinogenic groundwater pollution, the Grumman plume is expanding a foot a day from Bethpage toward the Great South Bay, centerpiece of the region’s South Shore estuary system.

The spread of its 24 contaminants, most notably the cancer-causing solvent trichloroethylene, or TCE, contrasts markedly with the shrinking of a similarly toxic groundwater plume from the property of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, 35 miles east.

Environmentalists and scientists who study the quality and movement of plumes say the cleanup methods have been similar, but not the comprehensiveness and commitment.

The federal Department of Energy is more than 20 years into a $360 million plan to extract the entirety of the pollution that leaked from Brookhaven. Its spread has been stopped and the contamination is on track to be virtually eliminated in another 40 to 50 years.

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For the entire article, see
https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/plume-brookhaven/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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