[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "frustrated Manorville [NY] residents without access to public water ask Navy for relief"

[Lenny Siegel]

Fearing Grumman water contamination, frustrated Manorville residents without access to public water ask Navy for relief

By Denise Civiletti 
Riverhead Local (NY)
February 4, 2020

Frustrated residents of Manorville who fear that their well water is contaminated took aim at the Navy at a local meeting last week.

Dozens of residents packed the Manorville Fire Department headquarters meeting room Wednesday night for the Navy’s semiannual Restoration Advisory Board meeting, when the Navy reports on its progress cleaning up waste sites it still controls at the former Grumman property in Calverton.

But the residents had little appetite for the Navy’s technical presentation. They had one thing on their minds: the water flowing out of the taps in their homes.

Worried about chemical contaminants in the groundwater on the former Grumman site and the contaminated plumes that have migrated off the site, residents in the area south of the industrial plant have been seeking connection to the Riverhead Water District. Some have been asking for years. 

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For the entire article, see
https://riverheadlocal.com/2020/02/04/fearing-grumman-water-contamination-frustrated-manorville-residents-without-access-to-public-water-ask-navy-for-relief/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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