2011 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:25:19 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Navy plans treatment plant at Calverton" NY Grumman plant
 
Navy plans treatment plant at Calverton

by JENNIFER SMITH
Long Island Newsday (NY)
November 4, 2011

In a cleanup milestone at the former Grumman defense plant in Calverton, the Navy has proposed building a treatment plant to stanch the flow of polluted groundwater threatening the Peconic River.

The underground plume of industrial solvents is the last big piece of contamination to be addressed at the Navy-owned property, where Grumman assembled and tested aircraft from 1954 to 1996. All but 209 of the site's roughly 3,000 acres have since been handed over to the Town of Riverhead for economic redevelopment.

The Navy agreed to clean up the polluted groundwater last year, after Suffolk County health department tests showed the contamination was far more concentrated and widespread than previously thought.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/navy-plans-treatment-plant- at-calverton-1.3297809

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