[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Navy to address Calverton (NY) plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy vows to work toward cleaning Grumman plume

BY MICHAEL WHITE
Riverhead News-Review (NY)
August 7, 2009

Though Navy officials may feel a plume of contaminated groundwater near 
the former fighter jet plant in Calverton doesn't pose a threat to human 
health and safety, they also say they are intent on restoring the land 
-- and its water -- to the way they found it in the 1950s.

And they say they're not leaving the Riverhead area until the pollution 
left behind by the Northrop Grumman weapons plant is completely cleaned.

Those assurances came from U.S. Navy spokesman Jim Brantley after a 
meeting Thursday night in Calverton, at which officials from the state, 
county and Navy discussed ongoing monitoring and remedial efforts at and 
near the plant, which closed in 1996.

"As long as it takes," Mr. Brantley pledged, reiterating the Navy's 
goal, as stated at the meeting, of restoring all groundwater in the area 
to acceptable New York State drinking water standards.

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For the entire article, see
http://www2.timesreview.com/NR/Stories/R081309_plume_mw

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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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