EPA to clean up contaminated groundwater at Peninsula Boulevard

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalised a plan to clean up groundwater at the Peninsula Boulevard Groundwater Plume site in Hempstead, New York, US.

The site’s groundwater is contaminated with volatile organic compounds tetrachloroethylene and tricholoroethylene chemicals, which are used in drycleaning.

The EPA’s clean-up plan involves extracting groundwater from the site using pumping wells and treating the water to remove contaminants before it is disposed of at a public wastewater treatment facility or sent back into surface water or groundwater.

Investigations conducted by the EPA from 2005 to 2010 identified that the groundwater was contaminated with tetrachloroethylene and low levels of other volatile organic compounds.