New York
Military Base Contamination in New York
3 installations in New York are profiled on this site for documented environmental contamination. Each page covers what was found, the cleanup status, and the health concerns for those who served there.
Griffiss Air Force Base
Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York is a Superfund site where decades of maintenance and disposal operations left TCE, PCBs and heavy metals in soil and groundwater.
Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant Bethpage
TCE and other solvents from the Navy-owned, Grumman-operated Bethpage plant created Long Island's largest groundwater plume, now spanning more than 3,000 acres in Nassau County's aquifer.
Plattsburgh Air Force Base
Former SAC bomber base in Plattsburgh, New York, where TCE, benzene, heavy metals and PFAS contamination led to a 1989 Superfund listing and ongoing cleanup.