[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Suffolk County Water Authority offers water service at Calverton, NY Navy-Grumman site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Suffolk County Water Authority to Navy: We’re ‘ready, willing and able’ to serve homes south of former Grumman site affected by contamination

By Denise Civiletti 
Riverhead Local (NY)
January 12, 2021

The Suffolk County Water Authority has notified the U.S. Navy that it stands “ready, willing and able” to provide water to 128 homes in the Calverton and Manorville communities whose private wells are threatened by PFAS contamination.

SCWA chief executive officer Jeffrey Szabo wrote to the secretary of the Navy today to say the water authority is prepared to run a water main to serve the homes in question.

“The Suffolk County Water Authority is in the best position to do that quickly and efficiently,” Szabo said in an interview this afternoon. 

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For the entire article, see
https://riverheadlocal.com/2021/01/12/suffolk-county-water-authority-to-navy-were-ready-willing-and-able-to-serve-homes-south-of-former-grumman-site-affected-by-contamination/

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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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