2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:49:43 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Lockheed wellhead treatment on Long Island, New York
 
Lockheed Martin Agrees to Send Toxins to Drinking Water Wells

Sharon O'Rourke
Huntington Buzz (NY)
October 23, 2013


There is a groundwater contamination crisis on Long Island and a little known but precedent-setting agreement between Lockheed Martin and the Manhasset-Lakeville and Great Neck water districts stands a good chance of making it worse.

State of Our Water

Groundwater contamination threatens drinking water wells in both Nassau and Suffolk counties. Around 65 years ago, defense and aerospace companies (among others) discharged industrial solvents used in manufacturing and contaminated the soil and groundwater beneath their facilities. Groundwater, through its natural flow, carries these potentially carcinogenic volatile organic compounds (VOC's) through our underground aquifers. Today as many as 30% of Long Island drinking water wells are contaminated and these toxins continue to spread.

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Under this agreement, Lockheed Martin offers the Great Neck and Manhasset-Lakeville water districts financial incentives--as high as $10.4 million and $12.95 million, respectively--to use their drinking water wells, which are actively used by tens of thousands of people, to treat contaminated water from the plume--instead of building separate "extraction wells" used solely for treatment purposes.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.huntingtonbuzz.tv/view_article.php?article_id=1474

For another perspective, see
http://www.antonnews.com/greatneckrecord/news/29793-public-and- corporate-forces-join-to-protect-water-.html

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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
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