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DEC Sets Date For Public Meeting About Toxic Plume In Speonk

Publication: The Southampton Press
By Erin McKinley   Feb 7, 2013 5:03 PM
Feb 12, 2013 4:38 PM
The State Department of Environmental Conservation has set a date for a public information meeting during which the agency will explain its decision not to clean up a roughly 2-mile-long plume of contaminated groundwater in Speonk.

According to DEC spokesman Bill Fonda, the meeting will take place on Wednesday, February 27, from 7 to 9 p.m., in Room S-101 in the Shinnecock Building on the eastern campus of Suffolk County Community College in Northampton.

The meeting will address the immediate concerns of residents who were first notified about the plume more than a decade ago, discuss the results of the site characterization report for the area, provide information about the site classification, and explain the agency’s rationale behind not removing the chemicals from the soil.

The primary contaminants found in the plume are... more

Plumes exist all over Long Island. Period. So saying "...(Cam Dresser and McKee).....failed to identify the potential source of the plume" is evasive talk. Who polluted the natural plume is the question. Ask Suffolk County Water Authority who was their number one violator back in the eighties ( Lumber Yard - arsenic and creosote - used to treat lumber ) and you have a match! The DEC appears to have signed off on the right of the Lumber Yard to continue their business.. There is no mystery ...more
By maggie (14), East Quogue on Feb 8, 13 8:50 AM
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