2017 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 13:00:52 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Navy to pay $6.78M for water-treatment upgrades in Bethpage" (NY)
 
Navy to pay $6.78M for water-treatment upgrades in Bethpage

By Emily C. Dooley
Long Island Newsday (NY)
December 18, 2017 

The U.S. Navy has agreed to pay $6.78 million for upgrades to a Bethpage Water District treatment plant that the Navy Secretary visited in September as part of a trip to examine local water-contamination issues.

The plant off Park Lane has two wells and is equipped with treatment systems to remove volatile organic chemicals associated with groundwater plumes that have been traced back to a Bethpage site where the Navy and what is now Northrop Grumman occupied more than 600 acres to research, test and manufacture airplanes and space exploration vehicles from the 1930s to 1990s. 

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) toured the facility in September after the senate minority leader pressed Defense Secretary James Mattis for action.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/bethpage-navy-groundwater-plume-1.15510035

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