Water filtration equipment to protect Farmingdale wells with $5.9M from state
Joseph Ostapiuk, newsday.com
A plume of toxins is moving south through the village from the 9½-acre former site of Claremont Polychemical Corp., which manufactured pigments for plastics and inks from the mid-1960s through the 1970s. The company dumped liquid waste in leaching basins and put sludge in drums that leaked into the ground. Thousands of drums were removed from the site in 1979 and 1980, officials said.