[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Navy effort to stop Grumman plume spread includes new extraction wells, " Bethpage, NY

[Lenny Siegel]

Navy effort to stop Grumman plume spread includes new extraction wells

By Paul LaRocco and David M. Schwartz
Long Island Newsday (NY)
November 20, 2020 

Ending decades of resistance, the U.S. Navy says it will attempt to capture the Grumman groundwater contamination plume plaguing Bethpage and surrounding communities, before it reaches Massapequa and the Great South Bay.

The plan, revealed Thursday at a virtual community meeting, reverses longstanding Navy opposition to the kind of comprehensive cleanup favored by water providers and federal elected officials and, in the last few years, urged by state regulators. The Navy would install as many as four new extraction wells along the Southern State Parkway, near the plume’s leading edge, as well as two new treatment systems.

"We have recognized that we can do more," the agency’s project manager, Brian Murray, told a citizen advisory board via videoconference.

As the pollution has spread, at a pace of a foot a day, officials from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) down to local water commissioners have repeatedly called for the responsible parties — Grumman’s corporate successor, Northrop Grumman, and the Navy, which co-owned part of the land where Grumman operated — to take the threat more seriously.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/plume-wells-groundwater-1.50071238

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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