Meeting to be held on Glenwood Landing pollution

GLENwood landing

Public meeting on anti-pollution measures

Plans to address pollution from a former dry-cleaning facility in Glenwood Landing will be discussed at a public meeting at 7 p.m. Oct. 13, in Glenwood Landing Elementary School.

State officials want to continue existing measures to treat contaminated soil vapor and groundwater at the Penetrex Processing site. They said no additional steps were needed to clean up the pollution. The proposed remedy would also impose limits on future uses of the property to prevent human exposure to potentially carcinogenic solvents, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

The 1-acre site at 1 Shore Rd., near Hempstead Harbor, was named as a "Class 2" site on the state's Superfund list in 1993, meaning that it poses a significant risk to public health. The DEC said an investigation showed pollution was limited to the site and has not migrated into the surrounding residential neighborhood.

According to a DEC database, the landlord leased the facility to Penetrex in the 1980s; the company has abandoned the site and the property houses a commercial building and a two-unit apartment building. Potentially harmful vapor in the soil below is controlled by sub-slab depressurization systems.

LAKE RONKONKOMA

Police seek witnesses to deadly accident

A Lake Grove man has died of injuries he suffered in a car accident in Lake Ronkonkoma, Suffolk police said.

John Crawford, 40, was driving his 2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo on Saturday night west on Smithtown Boulevard near Spectacle Lake Drive when he lost control and the vehicle hit a stop sign and some large rocks, police said.

The impact caused the car to overturn and strike a tree. Crawford was taken to Stony Brook University Medical Center in critical condition. Police said he was pronounced dead there yesterday morning.

Police are continuing to investigate the accident and have impounded the car for a safety check.

Anyone with information may contact the Fourth Squad at 631-854-8452 or anonymously call Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS.

MASSAPEQUA

Cops say man burglarized bridal suite

Nassau police say they have arrested a Massapequa man on charges of burglarizing a bridal suite - and it wasn't his first time doing so.

Police said that at 10:15 p.m. Saturday, Kevin Sigillo, 35, of Ripplewater Avenue, was seen entering the bridal suite at the Riviera catering hall on East Shore Drive in Massapequa. Sigillo took cash and personal checks from purses and pocketbooks, police said.

During Sigillo's processing, police said it was revealed that he had twice before entered the bridal suite to commit the same crime. Police charged Sigillo with three counts of third-degree burglary.

NESCONSET

Man badly injured in 2-car collision

Suffolk police are investigating a two-car collision shortly before 3 p.m. yesterday in Nesconset that left a North Merrick man badly injured.

Robert Simone, 43, was driving his 2008 Mercedes east on Route 347, police said, when he collided with a 2001 Chevrolet sedan driven by Jordan Wolfson, 21, that was turning left onto Browns Road from the westbound lane of Route 347.

Wolfson was admitted in critical condition to Stony Brook University Medical Center, police said. Simone of Seaford, as well as four passengers in his vehicle, were taken to Stony Brook with non-life-threatening injuries.