2012 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 07:09:43 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Water District Completes Petition Drive" at Navy Grumman Bethpage (NY) plant
 
Water District Completes Petition Drive

by Joe Scotchie
Massapequan Observer (NY)
May 25, 2012

Criticizes DEC response to groundwater situation For months, the Massapequa Water District has been in the forefront of the pressing issue of clean water on the South Shore of Long Island and especially as it relates to what it fears what water district officials call “highly toxic contaminated groundwater plume,” which they claim is emanating from the Navy Grumman site in Bethpage.

Recently, the water district completed its extensive petition drive, one that netted over 5,400 petitions. The petitions will be taken to Albany. The purpose, water district officials said, is to demand action by Governor Andrew Cuomo to take the necessary steps to have the polluters stop such plume.

“The Massapequa Water District has made its position clear and simple: the responsible parties must stop the plume from migrating further because the public does not want the toxic plume entering the districts’ water supply wells or impacting the Great South Bay,” water district officials stated in a release.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.antonnews.com/massapequanobserver/news/23033-water- district-completes-petition-drive.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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