fresh York state has begun testing the underground water supply in Bethpage,Long Island, amid concerns that a plume of toxic chemicals has been steadily seeping into the aquifer near a Northrup Grumman factory that once built military jets.
During a visit to Stony Brook University Thursday, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the first samples had been taken from six monitoring wells and would be processed by an expert lab. The tests would be able to fingerprint the source or sources of groundwater contamination.
A carcinogenic chemical used to build jets called trichloroethylene,or TCE, bled into the groundwater for decades — forming a nearly three-mile-long toxic plume that's been inching towards the ocean. In this report from public radio station WSHU, and done in collaboration with the School of Journalism at Stony Book,Jessica Opatich spoke with some residents and local officials who are unsatisfied with efforts by Northrop Grummann and the U.
S. Navy to address the issue.
Source: wnyc.org