Mangano: State should expand Bethpage cancer study
Photo credit: Jennifer Smith | The Grumman plant from Thomas Avenue in Bethpage, where tests suggest that potentially toxic gases from pollution at the former plant and naval weapons depot have penetrated the basements of at least four homes next to the site. (March 13, 2009)
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Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano said Wednesday night that the state needs to expand the study area in an analysis of cancer rates and environmental exposure in a Bethpage neighborhood.
Mangano's call for additional work on the analysis of an area that borders former Navy and Northrop Grumman manufacturing facilities came as about 120 residents met with State Department of Health officials...
