New York, Navy, Northrop Grumman Agree to Plume Cleanup Plan (1)

New York, the Navy, and Northrop Grumman have approved of a complex remediation plan that will remove toxics from the state’s biggest groundwater plume that affects Long Island’s drinking water.

Separately, Northrop Grumman will pay a $104 million Natural Resource Damages settlement—the largest settlement of its kind in state history—to help fund cleanup work related to the water supply and aquifers that serve as the region’s sole source of water, the state announced Monday.

“For decades one of the most critical and intractable problems for Long Island was the toxic contamination caused by the Grumman and Navy sites,” Gov. Andrew ...