Actually I'm going to amend that somewhat. I fully believe that the Elmira Independent did write an article specific to this discovery way back in 1992 at a public UPAC meeting. Even then Uniroyal and fellow liars were denying any free phase DNAPL on their site. This of course was an idiotic claim when you looked at the number of chlorinated solvents dissolved in the on-site and off-site groundwater. Clearly significant volumes of numerous chlorinated solvents (chlorobenzene, chlorophenols, trichloroethylene, trichloroethane, chloroform etc.) had been discharged to the natural environment on the Uniroyal site over a period of decades.
Bob Hillier, a MOE hydrogeologist, appeared at a UPAC meeting with a small glass jar that appeared to have dirty water in it with about two to three inches of a black goo on the bottom. The black goo was free phase DNAPL which had been extracted from on-site well OW-88 screened in the deeper Municipal Aquifer. This finally shut up the DNAPL deniers at least for a while despite the appearance of Frank Rovers which I wrote here about earlier. One of the founders of Conestoga Rovers (CRA) he had told UPAC at a public meeting that there were both free phase and residual DNAPL distributed throughout the site. In fact in July 2003 based upon both my research as well as the Soil & Water sub-committee of then CPAC (Crompton Public Advisory Comm.) we submitted a 3-4 page list of where various wastes including DNAPLS (both kinds) were located on the site in various waste pits and ponds. This Soil & Water sub-committee consisted of myself, Dr. Henry Regier, Fred Hager and Susan Bryant.
Since that date both on and off site pumping have caused greater groundwater flow helping in the normally very slow dissolution of free phase DNAPL. It might even be possible in off-site areas of the Elmira Aquifers that smaller deposits of DNAPL have been essentially reduced from free phase to residual DNAPL (i.e. not saturated in the sub-surface but merely filling some pore spaces between soil particles). Of course the professional liars in charge including the now MECP have kind of shot themselves in the foot as how can they now brag that they've reduced free phase DNAPL mostly off-site with their sometimes very high pumping rates which speed up the DNAPL dissolution process, after having claimed for decades that they never had the DNAPL there in the first place?
These are the very relevant facts and data now totally lost at TRAC as Susan joined the DNAPL Deniers Club early in 1994 as she and a fellow APTE coordinator sought to ingratiate themselves with Uniroyal Chemical. With Susan and Pat M. in charge at CPAC in 2003 this document slowly faded from memory and relevance much to Crompton and following corporate owners appreciation. Now today in 2025 consultants such as Joe Ricker (WSP) are at a loss for very high chlorobenzene concentrations allegedly appearing out of nowhere in several monitoring wells. This is no more than either free phase or residual DNAPL originally from the area of well OW 57-32 near the former W4 pumping well on Howard Ave. Different pumping wells today have altered the flow direction of this chlorobenzene as the plume bounces back and forth between the effects of W4 (then) and W5B and W3R now (or at least when they are up and pumping).
At this point in time I do not know if Susan is even capable of remembering significant dates, times and events from decades ago. Or if she even wants to.
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