[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Remediating the Grumman-Navy Plume, Bethpage, NY

[Lenny Siegel]

Navy One Step Closer To Treating Plume

By Frank Rizzo 
Long Island Weekly (NY)
May 11, 2019

When it comes to remediating the Grumman-Navy Plume, the U.S. Navy operates at its own pace.

For its critics, that may as well be glacial.

Navy representatives and contractors unveiled their latest plume contamination test results and operational plans at the 44th twice-annual meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB). These meetings fulfill the Navy’s mandate to keep the public informed about its remediation efforts as one of the two responsible parties whose manufacturing activities contaminated Long Island’s major drinking water supply, the Magothy Aquifer.

Dozens of people gathered on April 17 at the Bethpage Community Center to listen to and question representatives of the Navy, state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the state Department of Health (DOH) and other experts.


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For the entire article, see
https://longislandweekly.com/navy-one-step-closer-to-treating-plume/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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