This Week: EPA Proposes Cleanup Plan Change

1. The Environmental Protection Agency is considering a change in part of its plan to build treatment systems for groundwater at the Liberty Superfund site. The agency said recent monitoring data shows that the contamination levels in the portion of ground water that was contaminated by the dry cleaner site have dropped significantly.

  The agency will hold a public meeting on July 26  at the Farmingdale Public Library to explain the proposal. Comments will be accepted until Aug. 20.

2. A Farmingdale man was injured when in Lindenhurst. He and another man were working on a home when the accident occurred. The 41-year-old Farmingdale man sustained injuries to both legs, police said. The other, a 40-year-old Massapequa man, sustained head injuries.

3. Farmingdale residents who got up early enough got a look at and her racewalking abilities as she took part in the Runner's Edge 5k race Saturday. She's headed for the Olympics in London, where the Nesconset native will compete in a 20k race against the world's best.

4. told her story and her plans to head for an inspirational art class at a castle in France.

is coming to Old Bethpage Village Restoration in less than two weeks.

The encampment will depict a Union Army training camp, called a Camp of Instruction. It will be portrayed by authentically uniformed federal re-enactors at the Nassau County-owned Restoration Saturday and Sunday, July 21 and 22, announced Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano.

6. The reported this week that in the previous week's heat wave. Approximately 3.56 million gallons of water were pumped to residents over one weekend, breaking the previous record of 3.22 million gallons.