State investigates Bethpage cancer cases

Originally published: September 24, 2012 10:14 PM
Updated: September 24, 2012 11:05 PM
By EMILY C. DOOLEY emily.dooley@newsday.com

Photo credit: Steve Pfost | A view of the Bethpage water tower from 11th Street in Bethpage. (Sept. 12, 2012)

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The New York State Department of Health is investigating cancer cases in a Bethpage residential neighborhood where decades of chemical pollution from Grumman Corp. and U.S. Navy aviation manufacturing has contaminated groundwater.

Water districts in southern Nassau County have sparred with the state for years over how to clean up the plume -- one of the largest on Long Island -- that they...

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