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VOL. 17 NO. 33 Week of Nov. 25 - Dec. 2,1982 20 cents per copy Bethpage Girls
The Bethpage High School Varsity Swim Team has been designated as the number one
swimming team in New York State on the basis of having scored the highest point totals for
team performances in the State.
Mr. Joseph Groscost of the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association of
America presented a placque to the Bethpage Swim Team co-captains, Janine Dhersigny
and Elizabeth Louwers. He stated that the "power point" ranking by NISCA not only
placed Bethpage first in New York State but also established Bethpage as a national leader
on the basis of the ranking system used to determine dual meet team strength. Out of the
thousands of teams throughout the country, the Bethpage girls' swim team ranked twenty-fifth
in the nation.
SWIM TEAM 5th STRAIGHT
NASSAU COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP
The girls' swim team solidified its State and national ranking by scoring an overwhelm­ing
victory this past Friday, Nov. 12, in the Nassau County Team swimming Champion
ships at Nassau Community College.
The team scored 364!4 points, the nearest competitor Was Farmingdale with 226 points.
High point scorers for Bethpage were:
200 Medley Relay - 2nd place - Alexandra Kalagnomos, Donna Monten, Mary Jane
Muhlbach, Janine Dhersigny
200 Freestyle - 1st place -Tina Louwers
. 200 Indivdual Medley -3rd place - Chrissy McCutcheon
100 Freestyle - 2nd place -Janine Dhersigny; 3rd place - Donna Monten
500 Freestyle - 1st place -Tina Louwers
lOO 'Breast-stroke- 2nd1 place - DonnaMonten
400 Freestyle Relay - 1st place-Chrissy McCutcheon, Kerry Silk, Jessica Rochon,Tina
Louwers
Congratulations to all members of our Championship Team and to coach Cheryl Van
Syckle for her 5th County Championship in 10 years of coaching.
'A FIRST'-BETHPAGE GIRLS' TENNIS WINS
NASSAU COUNTY CONFERENCE TITLE
For the first time in the history of Bethpage High School tennis, our girls won the Nassau
County Conference 4 Championships.
With a-season record of 10-2, Bethpage tied with Mepham for first place in Conference
play. In the American League play-off, our team defeated Mepham 4-3 with the final
doubles match won by Ann Horwitz and Rina The, 4-3 - the final game going doWn to the
last tie breaker point.
In the finals against the National League champions, undefeated Levittown Division,
our girls played superbly with Mildred Suazo winning #1 singles 6-0, 6-0; Rochelle Beck
winning #2 singles 6-0,6-4; Laurie Stashower victorious in #3 singles 6-4,6-0. Chris Manz
and Kim Barletta won first doubles 6-3,6-2. The rest of the team won their last matches to
earn a clear victory 76-0 over their opponents.
Congratulations to this ever-improving team and their excellent coach, Mrs. Sunny
Fishkind. The icing on the cake was the selection of Mrs. Fishkind by her peers as the
Nassau County "Coach of the Year." An award most deserving.
Do Us Proud
Again
Accepting the NISCA plaque for the Bethpage girls swim team is: (1. to
r.) Janine Dhersigny, Elizabeth Louwers and Varsity coach, Cheryl Van
Syckle.
TOBAY, Occidental, Cerro and Grumman Face Suit
Attorney General Robert Abrams has
announced his intention to sue the Town of Oys­ter
Bay and three corporations if they do not
respond in 60 days to a formal request to clean up
toxic chemical contamination at the Old Beth­page
landfill.
The Attorney General said a clean-up is needed
because dangerous concentrations of highly toxic
chemicals have been found in the groundwater
beneath the site, where they threaten to pollute
public drinking water supplies.
In addition to the Town of Oyster Bay which
owns and operates the landfill, defendants in the
suit will be Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corp.,
the Grumman Aerospace Corp., and Cerro Wire
& Cable Co.
The 134-acre landfill, located in the Town of
Oyster Bay just south of the Old Bethpage Village,
was opened in 1957 and was used by Hooker (now
Occidental Chemical Corporation) as a dumpsite
for as much as 1,600,000 pounds of industrial
waste per year. These hazardous substances
include vinyl chloride, PCB's, toluene, trichlo-roethylene
and others.
Grumman and Cerro Wire also dumped var­ious
industrial wastes at the landfill.
Since 1979, the New York State Department of.
Environmental Conservation required the Town
to conduct testing and sampling at the site. This
testing has uncovered illegally high levels of vinyl
chloride, benzene, chloride, iron, manganese and
zinc in the groundwater underneath the landfill.
Significant levels of other hazardous substances,
like toluene, xylenes and aluminum, were also
found in the groundwater.
Testing and observation at the site also indicate
high levels of methane gas throughout the landfill
and its environs. Methane is detrimental to vege­tation,
and potentially explosive.
In view of these findings, DEC sought the
Town's agreement to determine the full extent of
the problem and to implement a complete clean­up
of the contamination and public nuisance at
the site and its environs. The Town refused to sign
the DEC Consent Order, and the matter was
referred by DEC to the Attorney General for
enforcement action against all responsible par­ties.
DEC has continued to assist the Attorney
General's office in all phases of the enforcement
action.
If no response is received in 60 days, litigation
against the Town, Occidental, Cerro and Grum­man
will proceed. The suit will seek reimburse­ment
to the State of New York for past, present,
and future damages to the air and groundwater,
and any costs incurred by the State in cleaning up
the site.
The Attorney General thanked DEC Commis­sioner
Robert F. Flacke for his ongoing
cooperation.
The matter is being handled for DEC by John
Greenthal, Director of the Division of Hazardous
Waste Enforcement and Michael Tone, an attor­ney
in that Division.
The matter is being handled for the Attorney
General by Assistant Attorneys General Robert
Osar and Eileen Millett, under the supervision of
Marcia Cleveland, Chief of the Environmental
Protection Bureau.