ICYMI: Pipeline Path Approved For Grumman-Navy Plume Remediation

Farmingdale NY

13 February, 2021

10:30 AM

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BETHPAGE, NY — An agreement on a pipeline path to remediate the Grumman-Navy plume hot spot was reached on Thursday by Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino, the town board and the Northrop Grumman Corporation, the town announced. Town roadways will be used to open a path for pipes from groundwater recovery wells at a hotspot of environmental contamination, known as RW-21, to a treatment plant on the Grumman property. "Environmental concerns have been going on for too long under the ground in our town," Saladino said via news release. "Thanks to years of collaboration between federal, state and town governments — along with the Bethpage Water District and surrounding districts — we have succeeded in forcing Grumman and the Navy to pay for these cleanups and follow the remediation plans designed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). We now take another important step forward toward remediating the plume by opening the path for pipes that will connect a hotspot of contamination to a treatment plant on the Grumman property." Click here to read the full story.