Bethpage area residents criticize Northrop Grumman toxic waste removal plan
(WorldNews Environment)

Bethpage-area residents at a meeting Thursday night criticized Northrop Grumman`s plan to install a water pipe on a residential street to remove toxic materials from groundwater contaminated by a plume that has plagued the community for decades. Some, like 70-year resident Robert Horan and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino, told Northrop Grumman officials at the meeting that they hope the defense contractor would return to its original state-approved plan to run the 2,200-foot water pipe along nonresidential areas in the massive effort to clean up the groundwater plume caused by industrial and military operations with the U.S. Navy. The two entities had set up...