State Will Hold Meeting To Explain Decision Not To Clean Up Speonk Plume
By Erin McKinley
Southampton Press (NY)
January 2, 2013
The State Department of Environmental Conservation has agreed to host
a public information meeting to explain its decision not to clean up
a nearly two-mile-long plume of toxic groundwater in Speonk.
Although the DEC has not yet set a date for the public meeting,
Charsleissa King, a press representative for the state agency,
confirmed this week that one that also will address the concerns of
hamlet residents is now in the works. She could not offer a specific
time frame as to when the meeting would be held.
The DEC changed course after receiving multiple requests from local
environmental and civic groups, as well as elected officials, that it
explain its reasoning to residents and the dangers posed by the
chemicals beneath the soil.
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For the entire article, see
http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/Remsenburg/448807/DEC-Caves-
Will-Hold-Meeting-To-Explain-Decision-Not-To-Cleanup-Speonk-Plume
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