Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy.

Navy-Grumman Groundwater Plume Update

The clock continues to tick as the massive groundwater plume emanating from the Navy-Grumman site continues to migrate south and to Nassau County’s south shore. A variety of meetings on the plume cleanup efforts were held over the past 5 months, including those sponsored by the NYS DEC/EPA/ Navy-Grumman; Congressman Thomas Suozzi; and Long Island Pure Water. Following the failure to devise a workable cleanup strategy to stop the plume migration southward by the HDR Consulting firm (Albany, NY) in 2016, the NYS DEC again hired HDR to develop a more focused plan to remediate the worst pollution “hot spots” and contain further migration.

In the late spring Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that New York State would spend $150 million to lead the cleanup of the Bethpage plume, the largest groundwater plume in New York State. Long Island Pure Water brought a law suit against New York State and Navy-Grumman to fund a study on the presence of radiological contamination and to create a remediation plan specifically for these radioactive materials being detected in wells near the Navy-Grumman facilities. In a separate lawsuit, 80 residents or their estates living in the Bethpage area have sued Northrup Grumman alleging medical injuries including death from contamination originating at the military contractor’s facility.

Photo Credit

About the author

GDPR