[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, CONTRACTOR: "Navy must be held accountable for contamination..." at Calverton, NY Grumman plant

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Grumman site was only a buck, but it was no bargain: Navy must be held accountable for contamination.

Editorial
RiverheadLOCAL (NY)
May 10, 2024

Riverhead got the former Grumman site from the federal government for a buck. But it was no bargain. Pollution there threatens private wells and may threaten public water supply too. And the Navy, though legally responsible for cleanup, just keeps dragging its feet.

We applaud Riverhead Town’s decision to collaborate with the Suffolk County health department to independently test the groundwater inside the Calverton Enterprise Park for PFAS. 

To date, the only groundwater (and soil) investigation at the site has been undertaken by the U.S. Navy, which owned the property until 1998, when it was transferred to the town by an act of Congress. Grumman Aerospace Corp. — later Northrop Grumman — operated a manufacturing and testing facility there under contract with the Navy. Grumman moved out in 1996, leaving behind a host of environmental problems resulting from its operation at the site, requiring extensive cleanup and remediation by the Navy. The Navy is still working on the remediation.

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For the entire editorial, see
https://riverheadlocal.com/2024/05/10/former-grumman-site-was-only-a-buck-but-it-was-no-bargain-navy-must-be-held-accountable-for-contamination/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.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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