The U.S. Navy has indefinitely postponed a meeting with Long Island residents to discuss cleanup efforts at a former military construction site in Calverton.
The Navy said the May 7 meeting with the Restoration Advisory Board was canceled to give the U.S. Department of Defense additional time "...to issue policy regarding PFAS maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) in the Navy's cleanup program."
A Navy spokesperson said there is no expected release date for those policies, and the meeting has not been rescheduled.
In April, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published new drinking water standards that strictly limit the amount of PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals."
Military contractor Northrup Grumman used the former Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant in Calverton to build aircraft from the 1950s through the 1990s, causing chemical contamination in the soil and water.
The cancellation comes as Suffolk County and Riverhead Town opened an investigation into the extent of groundwater pollution in Calverton.
