[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Wellhead treatment at Navy-Grumman Bethpage (NY) plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Presents Treatment Plans to Zoning Board
The U.S. Navy explains plans to install equipment to remove trace  
amounts of trichloroethene from area drinking water.

By Justin Izzo
Levittown Patch (NY)
January 26, 2012

The U.S. Navy gave further insight to its construction plans at Aqua  
NY's Seamans Neck Road Water Plant during a Town of Hempstead Board  
of Zoning Appeals (BZA) hearing Wednesday afternoon.

The Navy plans to install a water filtration system in a building on  
the northeast part of the plant's property, located at 690 Seamans  
Neck Rd. along the Levittown-Seaford border. The system will attempt  
to filter out trace amounts of trichloroethene (TCE) that are showing  
up in tests at the water plant.

The chemicals originated from work done for the Navy at a Northrup  
Grumman building approximately two miles north of the plant. Among  
the purposes of the plant included help with manufacturing of  
aircraft during World War II. It closed in 1996.

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For the entire article, see
http://levittown-ny.patch.com/articles/navy-states-case-to-zoning- 
board-of-appeals

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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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