[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, DIOXANE: "Navy maps show Calverton [NY] contaminants may be heading toward homes"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy maps show Calverton contaminants may be heading toward homes

By Tim Gannon
Riverhead News-Review (NY)
December 3, 2020

Groundwater flow maps released by the U.S. Navy last week show that exceedingly high levels of emerging toxic chemicals — PFOS, PFOA and 1,4-Dioxane — were detected in groundwater samples on the southern part of Navy property at Enterprise Park at Calverton and that the water is flowing toward the Peconic River and private drinking water wells.

Stan Carey of Calverton, who is chair of the Riverhead Town Planning Board and a superintendent in the Massapequa Water District, requested and received the map following a Nov. 12 meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board, which oversees the cleanup of land retained by the Navy when it turned over most of the former Navy property in 1998.

The map showed test levels of PFOS and PFOA at the property’s Fence Line Treatment Systems for 2016 through 2018. Testing results for 1,4-Dioxane also were included.

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For the entire article, see
https://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2020/12/103099/navy-maps-show-calverton-contaminants-may-be-heading-toward-homes/

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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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