PFAS

The county health department will share new data about the Calverton plume that's polluting wells, groundwater, ponds, lakes and the Peonic River at a community meeting April 28.

The PFAS contamination is widespread in the environment, is not limited to Long Island, and not caused by farmers, researchers say.

The EPA will delay enforcement of drinking water standards for two PFAS chemicals until 2031 and will rescind and reconsider standards adopted last year for three others. Environmental advocates say the move puts public health at risk.

Nearly all private drinking water wells sampled as a part of an expanded testing area surrounding the former Northrop-Grumman plant in Calverton did not contain harmful “forever chemicals” above the limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Navy said this week.

Samples of groundwater from the Scott’s Pointe amusement park site in Calverton tested positive for low levels of PFAS and negative for other harmful pollutants, according to test results recently received by the Town of Riverhead.

The Navy’s latest dodge in its ongoing — and so far successful — effort to avoid responsibility for plumes of contaminated groundwater traveling off the former Grumman site in Calverton has officially entered the Twilight Zone.

The Defense Department's new policy allows the Navy to further delay action to remedy drinking water contamination by plume migrating off Calverton site.

The Riverhead Water District and Suffolk County Department of Health Services are investigating a groundwater pollution plume in and around the former Northrop Grumman site in Calverton to determine if it may impact a Riverhead Water District well.

A long-anticipated federal rule establishing strict new drinking water standards for PFAS contamination was announced today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 

The Riverhead Water District has received $5 million in grant funding for public water extensions to areas of Calverton with contaminated private wells.