CHEMICALS IN COMMON (ELMIRA)

The following list of chemicals found in the shallow groundwater at Uniroyal/Chemtura have also been found in the shallow groundwater at Varnicolor Chemical. Keep in mind the shallow groundwater at Chemtura flows to the Canagagigue Creek not towards Varnicolor. The list is cellosolve, Benzothiazole, MBT, carboxin, aniline, chlorophenols, acetone and NDMA. Similarily the following chemicals which were in Varnicolor's shallow groundwater all have uses in the textile industry namely dimethylurea, aniline (phenylamine), tetrachlorethylene, 1,4 butanediol and dimethyl formamide. Dimethylamine which is a precurser to NDMA is also a precurser to dimethyl formamide and dimethylurea.

It is possible (probable) that Uniroyal and Borg were legitimate customers of Varnicolor who afterall were a licensed hazardous waste disposal site. The other interpretation is that SOME of Varnicolor's contamination came from Borg. During the 80's there was a major issue with liquid contaminants in the Howard St. storm drain which runs between Borg and Varnicolor, down Howard Ave. towards the creek. All the following chemicals which at one time or another have been found in the south wellfield (E7/E9) have also been found in Varnicolor's groundwater: toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, styrene, 1,1,1 trichloroethane, phenolics, NDMA and cyclohexylamine.