Since the June 19/25 TRAC meeting disclosed DNAPL located off-site just south of the company as well as on First St. and Howard St. it has become obvious that we have been lied to for decades. These only just recently disclosed DNAPL locations match the highest concentrations of chlorobenzene in the Municipal Lower Aquifer in this area.
The other problem is the numerous chlorobenzene/DNAPL sources throughout the area around the former Varnicolor Chemical. Not just around but on both sides (east & west) as well as possibly right on site. These groundwater concentrations should have been picked up on the Varnicolor Chemical site in the shallow aquifer monitoring but allegedly were not. WHY NOT? The map shown by Mr. Wright (Arcadis) is incredible as it shows perhaps as many as nine off-site sources of chlorobenzene/DNAPL.
Do we at last have the smoking gun proving corruption by the Ontario Ministry of Environment? The lack of chlorobenzene detections on site taken by the M.O.E. was never properly explained. The refusal and indeed reneging on the promise to citizens to sample the deeper aquifer was also never appropriately explained.
All this off-site DNAPL needs to be properly removed or taken care of. Absolutely zero of the parties involved in the cleanup now should be involved in the future removal of DNAPL as they simply are too dishonest and untrustworthy.
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