Scientist Says Water May Have Been Tainted
<i> Reuters</i>
NEW YORK —
A former scientist at a Long Island nuclear research plant said Monday that residential drinking water may have been threatened by radiation, but laboratory officials denied the charge.
Hydrogeologist Robert Ramirez, who worked on the government-ordered clean-up of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton in 1995 and 1996, said he suspected that radioactivity had seeped into ground water.
Officials at the laboratory, which has a history of pollution problems, said tests had not detected any contamination.
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