[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, PFAS: Water pollution from Navy/Grumman site, Calverton, NY

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Will EPCAL contamination spread east? Manorville resident says ‘everybody will be affected’

By Tim Gannon
Riverhead News-Review (NY)
June 28, 2021

A Manorville resident who has been a leader in the call to extend public water to parts of Manorville and Calverton near the Enterprise Park at Calverton says the issue is bigger than just those hamlets and pollution may find its way in the Peconic River and in places to the east and even downtown Riverhead.

“The Navy has notified the public that the water flows to the Peconic River,” said Kelly McClinchey of Manorville, at the June 15 Riverhead Town Board meeting. Ms. McClinchey is a member of the Calverton Restoration Advisory Board, which oversees the Navy cleanup of land at EPCAL that is still owned by the Navy – and undergoing cleanup by the Navy – which previously leased it to the Grumman Corporation to test fighter planes. 
 
“Anyone who has attended a RAB meeting has heard this,” she said. “These chemicals are going offsite, and flowing past the south fence line, and they will get no further remediation. The Navy is not doing anything more to clean them up once they are off site.”

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For the entire article, see
https://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2021/06/105836/will-epcal-contamination-spread-east-manorville-resident-says-everybody-will-be-affected/

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Lenny Siegel
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