[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Long Island, NY contamination

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Gillibrand’s Clean Water Bill Isn’t A Moment Too Soon For Calverton Homes Polluted With PFAS 

By J.D. ALLEN 
WSHU Radio (NY)
June 3, 2021

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has reintroduced legislation that would more strictly regulate groundwater for PFAS chemicals. PFAS contamination has been detected in 49 states across the country. Homeowners in Calverton, Long Island, who live near a former naval defense manufacturer know the impacts of the contamination well.

The latest analysis by Suffolk County Department of Health Services shows PFAS was detected in nearly 15% of private drinking wells tested in Calverton. Lawn signs now cover Calverton homes calling for the Navy to step in to remediate their contaminated private drinking water wells.

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Christopher Stellars, an environmental historian at Stony Brook University who moderated the panel, said Long Island now plays a central role in the process of updating federal standards because of the “contaminated areas of concerns.”

Esposito keeps track of these contamination sites, to name a few:

	• Francis S. Gabreski Airport
	• East Hampton Airport
	• Hampton Bays Fire Station
	• Suffolk County Firematics Training Facility in Yaphank
	• Brookhaven National Laboratory
	• Rowe Industries in Sag Harbor
	• Former Northrop Grumman facility in Bethpage

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For the entire story, see
https://www.wshu.org/post/gillibrand-s-clean-water-bill-isn-t-moment-too-soon-calverton-homes-polluted-pfas#stream/0


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Lenny Siegel
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