[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Navy to get easements to address Bethpage [NY] underground contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy to get easements to address Bethpage underground contamination

By Candice Ferrette
Long Island Newsday (NY)
August 3, 2020 

Nassau lawmakers on Monday unanimously approved a resolution granting the U.S. Navy access to county property to clean the largest area of underground contamination left by defense contractor Northrop Grumman in Bethpage. 

The permanent easements on five parcels of county land represents a necessary step toward remediation of the Bethpage plume, Long Island's largest mass of carcinogenic groundwater pollution. Named a state superfund site in 1983, the plume is moving a foot a day toward the Great South Bay.

After the vote, Legis. Rose Walker (R-Hicksville), who's district lies abovei the plume, said, "Grumman, the Navy and the federal government must do everything in their power to expedite this process as quickly and efficiently as possible."  


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For the entire article, see
https://www.newsday.com/news/health/coronavirus/nassau-taxes-covid-19-bethpage-plume-1.47714977

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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
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