Northrop Grumman/Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant FacilitiesHealth ConsultationThe New York State Department of Health, in partnership with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, prepared a Health Consultation for the Northrop Grumman/Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant (NWIRP) facilities located in Bethpage, Nassau County, and Calverton, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. The health consultation was prepared in response to a specific request for information about health risks associated with exposure to contaminants in groundwater that originated from the Northrop Grumman/NWIRP facilities. The New York State Department of Health evaluated the available historic and recent analytical data on regulated contaminants in public water supply wells and area monitoring and irrigation wells to determine if ingestion (drinking), inhalation, and dermal contact exposures could cause harm to human health. Based on this evaluation, the New York State Department of Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry have the following health advice: - Currently, drinking or other uses of water from the public water supplies affected by the Northrop Grumman/NWIRP facility in Bethpage, Nassau County, is not expected to harm people’s health.
- Past use of drinking water contaminated with trichloroethene from the Bethpage Water District Well 6-1 could have increased the risk for noncancer adverse health effects. Past long-term ingestion and inhalation exposure to tetrachloroethene and 1,1,1-trichloroethane in Bethpage Well 6-1 is unlikely to have harmed people’s health.
- Past use of drinking water contaminated with trichloroethene in the other public water supplies (other than Bethpage Well 6-1) affected by Northrop Grumman/NWIRP facility in Bethpage is unlikely to harm people’s health.
- While exposures to facility related contaminants through the use of unpermitted private wells were possible, such exposures are unlikely.
- Currently, drinking or uses of water from public water supplies in Calverton, (Suffolk County), is not expected to harm people’s health.
- Past use of drinking water from the Peconic River Sportsman Club private well (Suffolk County) is unlikely to harm people’s health.
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Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.orgP.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)
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