[CPEO-MEF] VOCS, CONTRACTORS: "Superintendent says progress is being made on the Grumman Navy plume, " NY

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Superintendent says progress is being made on the Grumman Navy plume 


By Gary Simeone
Mid-Island Times (NY)
July 30, 2020 

The so called Grumman Navy plume has been a decades long work in progress to clean up what is considered to be Long Island’s largest underground mass of water pollution. There have been many different parties involved in the multi-million dollar remediation project, and years of government red tape has frustrated local water districts and residents alike.

In a recent telephone interview, Bethpage Water District Superintendent, Mike Boufis, explained to me the current state and timetable of the ongoing remediation project.

“Currently things are moving in the right direction,” said Boufis. “Three wells have already been drilled in Bethpage, as part of  the remediation work on the eastern side of the plume and the design and building phases are underway on the pipes to centralize the water treatment system.”

He added that the remediation work was, “decades late but I’m glad to see everything moving in the right direction.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.midislandtimes.com/articles/superintendent-says-progress-is-being-made-on-the-grumman-navy-plume/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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