UNDERWHELMING GROUNDWATER RESULTS FROM TWO WELLS ON THE EDGE OF GP-1

These two wells are OW 69 and OW 24. More specifically they are OW 69-3 and OW 69-8 screened in the Upper Aquifer (i.e. shallow ) as well as OW 69-13 screened in the Municipal Upper Aquifer. These wells are located immediately on the left (west) side of GP-1 near the north end of that allegedly former gravel pit (i.e. GP-1). OW 24 oddly has three Upper Aquifer wells namely OW 24 S1, S2 and S3 screened at three, five and six metre depths. This well also has OW 24i for intermediate screened in the Municipal Upper Aquifer at approximately the twelve metre depth as well as OW24d (deep) screened in the Municipal Lower Aquifer at the thirty metre depth. Monitoring well OW 24 is also on the immediate left (west) side of GP-1 although further south than OW 69. ............................................................................................................... So how underwhelming are these various groundwater concentrations? Oh and I'm talking about groundwater results in the early 1990s shortly after the guilty parties began seriously building more monitoring wells and regularly sampling them. Therefore these results are prior to the two "consolidation" pits on the east side being excavated (Dec. 1993) as well as before GP-1 was partially excavated in 2013-2014. The groundwater concentrations for NDMA, chlorobenzene, toluene, chlorophenols and a host of other contaminants were often below the laboratory detection limit and when detectable they were very low. Quite frankly this is nonsensical after the claims by Uniroyal, CRA, MOE etc. that the bulk of the overflowing waste waters from east side pits RPE 1-5 ended up in GP-1 and GP-2. If that was true then the chemical contaminants would have been very high in the early 1990s. Yes dioxin/furans and DDT results were "high" however that is subjective in that the health criteria are thousands of times lower for these contaminants, most especially for dioxins/furans. Therefore the concentrations of dioxins/furans were only "high" relative to thier extreme toxicity and hence low criteria. ..................................................................................................... On the other hand the concentrations of numerous of the same contaminants in wells both west and east of pits RPE-4 and RPE-5 in the same time frame were huge. We are talking wells such as OW41, OW42, OW43, OW70, OW5 on the west side of the "consolidation" pits and OW28, OW37-5A and OW8 onthe east side. These concentrations often exceeded 10,000 parts per billion (ppb) and sometimes even exceeded 100,000 ppb. It is becoming clearer all the time that whatever chemical skills Uniroyal/Crompton/Chemtura/Lanxess have; they are equaled or exceeded by their story telling skills.