[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Navy will test private drinking water wells near the former Grumman plant in Calverton, " NY

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy will test private drinking water wells near the former Grumman plant in Calverton for PD

By Denise Civiletti
Riverhead Local (NY)
January 8, 2025

The U.S. Navy has agreed to test private drinking water wells near the former Grumman facility in Calverton for PFAS.

Navy representatives will be on hand at an open house in Riverhead on Wednesday evening, Jan. 22 to discuss the sampling and schedule appointments with property owners. 
PFAS, known as “forever chemicals” are harmful substances linked to deadly cancers, impacts to the liver and heart, and immune and developmental damage to infants and children, the EPA said in a press release announcing the rule.

…


Contamination of soil and water at the former Grumman site in Calverton, a Naval Weapons Reserve Plant operated by the Navy contractor from the mid-1950s until 1996, was discovered in the mid-1980s. The contamination, including PFAS, has migrated off-site and is suspected to have contaminated private residential drinking water wells and surface waters. 

…

For the entire article, see
https://riverheadlocal.com/2025/01/08/navy-will-test-private-drinking-water-wells-near-the-former-grumman-plant-in-calverton-for-pd/


—

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)

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org