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Plan to treat toxic plume raises concern

It's the start of a new year at St. Patrick's School in Bay Shore, where a freshly paved schoolyard also marks a long-awaited and controversial front in a bid to treat a mile-long toxic plume.

Fitted into the fresh blacktop are scores of Frisbee-size manhole covers that cap 40 lines to feed oxygen into a toxic groundwater plume, along with nearly as many test wells to monitor their progress.

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