Just as Uniroyal/Lanxess are full of it so is their property in Elmira full of DNAPLS. The list goes on and on and only once did Jaimie Connelly (M.O.E. hydrogeologist) lay down the law on DNAPLS including a number of different Effective Solubilities versus Lab Solubilities. In other words the greater the number of different solvents etc. dissolved in groundwater the lower the actual solubility of the individual solvents including the chlorinated ones. While I'm making nice with the generally corrupt and despicable M.O.E./MECP let me also add that it was M.O.E. hydrogeologist Bob Hillier who first brought a bottle containing Dnapl to a public UPAC meeting in the 1990s. It had been pumped from well OW88 in the south-west part of Uniroyal where chlorobenzene concentrations were through the roof.
The "Non Aqueous Phase" part of DNAPL (Dense Non Aqueous Phase Liquid) refers to its' consistency and inability to readily dissolve in water. In other words while it can pour and flow like a liquid it doesn't immediately either mix readily or dissolve in water. Yes some DNAPLS can dissolve more readily in some solvents. To say that the groundwater beneath Uniroyal Chemical is a witches' brew doesn't even begin to cover it. When I think of DNAPLS I think of how mercury behaves from a broken thermometer. Or another metaphor would be the "Blob" found on the bottom of the St. Clair River in the 1980s courtesy I believe of another hero chemical company named Dow Chemical.
The DNAPL coverup at Uniroyal Chemical started (at least for the public) in the very early 1990s. Back room agreements were made with the M.O.E. and all the other Environmental Appeal Board parties obviously including APTE when you look at Sylvia's behavior towards her own DNAPL critique written by myself, Sylvia and Glenys. I do not believe other APTE co-ordinators had any knowledge of this betrayal as neither Esther Thur nor Rich Clausi had knowledge of it. Susan Bryant was in India at the time. Uniroyal had already effectively disabled APTE the moment one or two leaders agreed on their own to coverup DNAPLS. This coverup continued despite my best efforts at UPAC. There was a revival around 2006-2007 with Jaimie Connolly and even Wilf Ruland, he who had ten gears for reverse and only one to go forward (remember the old joke about the gearing on Egyptian battle tanks?). Unfortunately Susan B. and Pat Mc.(CPAC Chair) "forgot" to send me those 2006 letters from Jaimie and Wilf for a couple of years. Oh right Susan B. blamed it on my late switch from FAX to E-Mail.
The 2007 DNAPL meeting at the University of Waterloo between Drs. John Cherry and Beth Parker and myself, Susan B., Wilf & Pat Mc. should have been the turnaround. Instead months later Pat and Susan B. faked huge concern over a proven flaw(s) in the proposed Ammonia Treatments System that I found and ran by both Susan and Wilf Ruland. Wilf carefully agreed with what I had found and tried at a meeting with Uniroyal/Chemtura and CRA to get some compromise from them. Wilf's ten reverse gears couldn't handle Conestoga Rovers pushback so he dropped it.
And all the guilty parties rejoiced as they lied their way through another problem that desperately needed to be addressed to properly remediate the Elmira Aquifers. For God's sake why do you think that chlorobenzene's groundwater concentrations have been far, far less successfully reduced than NDMAs in both the Municipal Upper Aquifer and especially in the Municipal Lower Aquifer? It's the damn DNAPLS both on and off site that are greatly delaying the reduction of chlorobenzene concentrations and those DNAPLS should have been properly and professionally addressed thirty-five years ago rather than covered up by all the guilty parties.
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