[CPEO-BIF] Hauppauge, New York toxic plume

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

New checks on Bay Shore toxics

BY MARK HARRINGTON
Long Island Newsday (NY)
November 28, 2007

State health and environmental officials yesterday agreed to conduct 
more comprehensive monitoring of soil and groundwater as they embark on 
a plan to treat a massive toxic plume in Bay Shore.

At a meeting in Hauppauge, officials with the state Department of 
Environmental Conservation and the Department of Health assured Suffolk 
County officials that they would closely monitor samples as they begin 
pumping oxygen into the ground to treat a 4,000-foot-long toxic plume. 
The contamination resulted from decades of coal-tar releases into the 
ground at the Clinton Avenue site, in a process that made a vaporous gas 
used for lighting and heating beginning in the 1800s.

Suffolk officials, who in the past have expressed concern that the 
so-called in-situ remediation method could release toxins into the air, 
said the agreement to do more air and water sampling would help quell 
their concerns.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/wednesday/health/ny-bzmgp285478719nov28,0,5618634.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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