[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, CONTACTORS: "More PFAS contamination detected inside the Calverton Enterprise Park, Navy investigators say"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

More PFAS contamination detected inside the Calverton Enterprise Park, Navy investigators say

By Denise Civiletti
Riverhead Local (NY)
April 26, 2023

Environmental investigators have found new areas of PFAS contamination — some at very high levels — at the former Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant in Calverton that was once leased to Navy contractor Northrop Grumman.

Some areas are within the acreage the Riverhead Community Development Agency is in contract to sell to Calverton Aviation & Technology, according to a presentation given last week by the Navy and its contractors working on site cleanup in Calverton.

The Navy has designated several new areas of concern and sites for investigation and eventual cleanup. One is just west of the 10,000-foot runway, where PFAS levels detected in groundwater were 100 times the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional screening level of 4 parts per trillion. Its plume stretches to the southeast and extends across the runway toward the Peconic River, according to the presentation.

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For the entire article, see
https://riverheadlocal.com/2023/04/26/more-pfas-contamination-detected-inside-the-calverton-enterprise-park-navy-investigators-say/

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Lenny Siegel
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