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Cuomo Announces Record Deal To Clean Up Long Island Aquifer After 10 Year Fight Cuomo Announces Record Deal To Clean Up Long Island Aquifer After 10 Year Fight
Cuomo Announces Record Deal To Clean Up Long Island Aquifer After 10 Year Fight The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman have reached a record-setting agreement to cleanup a Long Island aquifer that has been a point of contention with the state for decades. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared “the end of a Long Island 10-year fight” on Monday, Dec. 21, announcing that the two have reached a $406 million plan to stop and remove Grumman’s groundwater pollutants that has been spreading in Bethpage for years. “My DEC and our whole team here knew that there was a pollution plume left by Grumman with toxic chemicals in the aquifer,” he said. “It was left during the manufacturing e…

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