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Vol. 29, No 51
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DECEMBER 20 - 26, 2017
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Feds devote $7 million to study PFOS, PFOA City plans to
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention will conduct a five-year
study into the long-term health effects
of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and
perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) exposure
in humans. The federal research funding
for the study was announced earlier this
month – a year and a half following the
discovery of PFOS contamination of the
City of Newburgh drinking water supply.
The funding comes by way of the
Investing in Testing Act, which was part
of the National Defense Authorization Act
signed into law last Tuesday. “We need to
have safe drinking water,” Congressman
Sean Patrick Maloney said last week.
“There is no reason we should not. It
starts with good research and testing.”
Maloney waged more than a year-
long campaign to have funding devoted
to study the human-health effects from
exposure to PFOS and PFOA, used up
until recently in fire-foam concentrate
used by fire fighters and at military
installations.
PFOS was found at alarming levels at
the Stewart Air National Guard Base last
year. State testing revealed the chemical
traveled from the air base and into local
waterways, eventually making its way
into Washington Lake, the city’s main
drinking water reservoir. PFOS was
found at the lake ranging in levels of 140
to 170 parts per trillion. The EPA lowered
its lifetime health advisory level for PFOS
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F estival of L ights
Kol Yisrael of Newburgh observed Hanukkah with a Menorah Lighting each night. At each lighting, a different community organization or
profession was honored. Medical providers were honored last Thursday, the third night of Hanukkah. Additional photo on page 18.
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hire Beacon
police chief
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The City of Newburgh may get a new
police chief as early as this spring. City
of Beacon Police Chief Douglas Solomon
has been chosen by Newburgh’s city
manager to fill the important and long-
vacant position as head of the City of
Newburgh Police Department.
“I believe he is imminently qualified,”
City Manager Michael Ciaravino said at
City Hall last week.
S o l o m o n
currently serves
as both City of
Beacon police chief
and the mayor
of
the Village
of Monticello in
Sullivan County.
“What I like about
Chief Solomon is
that he was there for Douglas Solomon
a significant part of
the renaissance, the rebirth of the City
of Beacon,” Ciaravino said, likening this
period to growth now taking place in
Newburgh.
Moreover, said Ciaravino, Solomon is
willing to move to the city – a requirement
for city department heads that has been a
sticking point for past candidates for the
job. “He is eager to establish residency
in the City of Newburgh,” Ciaravino
confirmed.
When asked why he chose Newburgh,
“his answer was simple,” the city
manager said, quoting Solomon. “I made
a transformation in Monticello. I was
part of the rebirth in the City of Beacon.
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