The term "non disclosed work arounds" above has been borrowed from a distinguished friend who used it in e-mails yesterday to myself and various others some of whom have ethics and integrity in inverse proportion to their actual authority or power. At least that is my opinion not necessarily his. In fact my friend while immensely talented and knowledgeable does not use his powers to belittle or insult, even the most blatant excuses of humanity, as I do. For myself call it compensation for having a smaller brain than his.
Chlorinated solvents are the best known DNAPLS. Chlorine is a heavy atom and one of the distinguishing characteristics of DNAPLS is the first word "Dense" in their name . It means that their Specific Gravity is greater than 1 which is the specific gravity of water. Hence DNAPLS sink through groundwater. From day one Uniroyal Chemical with support from the Ontario Ministry of Environment have lied about the proliferation of Dnapls both on and off their site in Elmira, Ontario. Chlorobenzene is merely one of dozens of different DNAPLS negigently mishandled by Uniroyal for decades. It and NDMA are the face and focus of the groundwater pollution here. For Uniroyal and the M.O.E. to ever deny the presence of either free phase or residual DNAPL in, on and around this site is the height of stupidity, brass, contempt and frankly utter lack of ethics or honesty. Until or unless they ever stop lying I view their word at best as garbage.
There are both rules and laws regarding environmental cleanups. Uniroyal and successors have lied, misled, fudged data, used junk and psuedo science, manipulated citizens and politicians alike in their quest to minimize and reduce both their moral and legal liability. They were told by Dave Belanger of CH2MHILL back in the early 1990s that hydraulic containment i.e. Pump & Treat was the "cheapest and least effective solution" to remediate the Elmira Aquifers. Dr. Richard Jackson publicly at TAG (Technical Advisory Group) described their pilot test of ISCO (In Situ Chemical Oxidation) near W3R pumping well as pathetic and amateurishly done.
This is the reality of their multi failed cleanup of both our groundwaters and of our surface waters (Canagagigue Creek) not to mention their impressively forever (?) contaminated property. Our municipal, regional and provincial politicians have been worse than negligent. They have been complicit and as a direct result Elmira and area citizens have paid and continue to pay the health price of contaminated air, water and soils.
And certain a**hole politicians have the nerve to suggest that I have failed to treat them or their fellow health assaulters ( more gently said than murderers) with courtesy and respect when all they deserve is a swift kick out of town never to return.
Complicit = NEGLIGENT!
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