[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Alternate Water to be supplied near Calverton Navy-Grumman site

[Lenny Siegel]

Riverhead and Suffolk County Water Authority will work together to bring public water to Manorville, under preliminary agreement discussed yesterday

By Denise Civiletti
Riverhead Local (NY)
May 10, 2022,

Riverhead Town officials and the Suffolk County Water Authority are discussing a potential agreement that would have the water authority supply public water to 64 Manorville homes within the Town of Riverhead where private wells have been contaminated by toxic chemicals.

Under a preliminary agreement discussed “in broad strokes” yesterday, the water authority would install about 3,000 feet of water main and serve those 64 homes from its system. The Town of Riverhead would pay SCWA for the work and SCWA would supply and meter the water to the neighborhood, but the area residents would be customers of the Town of Riverhead Water District, according to a joint press release issued today by the SCWA and the Town of Riverhead.

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Residents as well as local and federal elected officials have sought to hold the U.S. Navy accountable for the contamination and responsible for the cost of extending public water to residents south of the former Grumman aerospace manufacturing site in Calverton. 

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For the entire article, see
https://riverheadlocal.com/2022/05/10/riverhead-and-suffolk-county-water-authority-will-work-together-to-bring-public-water-to-manorville-under-preliminary-agreement-discussed-yesterday/

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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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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)