[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Schumer Urges Navy To Expedite Bethpage [NY] Reimbursement"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Schumer Urges Navy To Expedite Bethpage Reimbursement
Water district has borrowed millions already for water treatment

Levittown Tribune
October 19, 2012

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer has called on the U.S. Navy, by way of  
the Department of Justice, which is representing the Navy in legal  
proceedings, to immediately agree to reimburse the Bethpage Water  
District (BWD) for the money it has spent on equipment and treatment  
plants to purify drinking water contaminated by the toxic Bethpage  
plume.  The district has had to issue bonds of almost $14 million for  
the construction and operation of equipment to treat the drinking  
water, and repaying those bonds will cost approximately $3,000 per  
household if the district is not reimbursed. The BWD has already had  
to make the first payment of $1 million, which will cost ratepayers  
approximately $100 this year. Schumer, who has been a leading  
advocate for aggressive cleanup of the plume, called on the U.S. Navy  
to immediately begin paying the Bethpage Water District for the cost  
of the equipment and treatment plants so that ratepayers are not  
charged for cleaning up a situtation they did not create.

Schumer stood at the Motor Lane wellhead treatment plant known as  
"Plant 6," on Oct. 11, and was joined by BWD Commissioners William  
Ellinger and Gary Bretton, Business Manager Sal Greco and Anthony  
Sabino, counsel to the BWD.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.antonnews.com/levittowntribune/news/25557-schumer-urges- 
navy-to-expedite-bethpage-reimbursement.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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