[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: Former Roosevelt Field, Garden City, NY

[Lenny Siegel]

EPA expands cleanup plan for Garden City Superfund site

News12 Long Island (NY)
February 23, 2018

GARDEN CITY - The Environmental Protection Agency is expanding the cleanup at a Superfund site in Garden City after chemicals were found in the groundwater.

Roosevelt Field is now one of the Island's busiest shopping malls. But from 1911 to 1951 it was a hub for the aviation industry, including the U.S. Army and Navy. Contamination was first found in groundwater near the site in the late 1970s.

The area became a federal Superfund site in 2000, and the EPA finalized a plan a decade ago to clean up the western portion of the site. But six years ago, the EPA found an additional contaminated area south of Old Country Road and a few blocks east of Clinton Road. Now, the EPA has come up with a plan to rid that eastern area of the contaminants known as TCE and PCE.

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For the entire article, see
http://longisland.news12.com/story/37579618/epa-expands-cleanup-plan-for-garden-city-superfund-site

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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