After all despite the horror and anguish displayed by Jeff Merriman years ago when I first suggested that DDT and Dioxin/Furans were DNAPL chemicals; I have seen nothing since to persuade me otherwise. We do know that Dioxins are on the Stroh farm based upon a very few samples that have been taken including soil samples that I and Se******* took years ago. Also Lanxess have taken a couple of sediment samples in the bottom of the Stroh Drain and hit paydirt with one result of 24.4 pg/g. The criteria for 2,3,7,8 TCDD (dioxin) in sediment is a mere .85 pg/g.
Also of course we have the huge chlorobenzene plume shown underneath the east side pits (RPE 2-5) shown at the June 19/25 TRAC meeting by Arcadis on behalf of Lanxess. That takes a significant quantity of either free phase or residual DNAPL (chlorobenzene) in order to produce that size of a dissolved plume of chlorobenzene in groundwater. The chlorobenzene was initially released mixed in with wastewaters and pumped into the east side pits where it could readily overflow the open topped pits and gravity flow both westwards and eastwards onto the Stroh property. That fact has been proven by serious concentrations of both DDT and Dioxins found on the Stroh property near Uniroyal's east side pits. Seriously what kind of ass**les locate their toxic waste pits either on the property line of their neighbours or literally within spitting distance of it?
Chlorinated solvents are DNAPLS (dense non aqueous phase liquids). Again DDT is Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane i.e. lots of chlorine present. Dioxins (2,3,7,8 TCDD refers to Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin also with lots of chlorine present. These two chemicals also have a density greater than 1 (they are "sinkers") and they have a very low solubility in water. Chlorobenzene is also known as Monochlorobenzene or benzene (C6H6) with one chlorine atom attached i.e. C6H5Cl. Dichlorobenzene has two chlorines attached to a benzene molecule. Trichlorobenzene has three chlorine atoms attached.
Never fear the idio** at Woolwich Township feel that burying this crap on the Stroh farm under roads and commercial buildings somehow will magically make it go away. Well Uniroyal has already tried it and look at the mess they made and continue to pretend to clean up.
the REGION OF WATERLOO will shortly unveil another updated version of the burial plan disguised as a Elmira Truck Bypass plan. It is due out in the next 6 months, and it will include a huge wand-waving exercise including a public meeting - which will be called the preferred plan based on their "professional" version of a fake and false public consensus but will in reality be a brutal expropriation of the facts and the truth. Somebody in the know told me last year that in the same preferred plan, the proposed bridge and raised roadway crossing the Canagagigue and the expansive wetlands would cost the taxpayers megamillions.
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