You may have read about the slew of lawsuits filed over the past few years by Long Island water districts seeking to recover damages arising from alleged contamination of drinking water.
The federal government and Northrop Grumman Corp. have agreed to collectively shell out $64.5 million to a pair of Long Island water districts to put to rest litigation over groundwater contamination in New York state, according to proposed agreements filed in Empire State federal court Monday.
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The Bethpage aerospace giant was aware in the 1970s its toxic chemicals were contaminating groundwater, but it kept secret information that could have helped stop what is now LI’s most intractable environmental crisis, a Newsday investigation found.