CAN I TAKE SOME CREDIT FOR LANXESS'S RECENT REVELATIONS?

 

Frankly that hadn't crossed my mind until today. Why are they doing this? Could it be they' re hoping that by divulging some secrets/lies they can avoid others being found?  Admitting that Varnicolor was bad enough to pollute our deeper drinking water aquifers is huge. Similarly is the admission that there used to be DNAPL at former pumping well W4. This basically condemns both Chemtura and the Ontario Ministry of Environment (MOE/MECP) as they denied it both verbally and in writing. 

Now I will say that it was done super low key. No big build up or announcement whatsoever. In fact it was done so quietly at TRAC that likely 99% missed the first time around . Now it's even likely that a very large percentage didn't pick up on it even weeks or months later when the Minutes were released. Most of TRAC know absolutely nothing about Varnicolor  hence hearing that some other company decades ago contributed to the groundwater contamination isn't a big deal for them. Similarly learning that free phase DNAPL did exist on the top of the Municipal Aquitard (i.e. the bottom of the Municipal Upper Aquifer) at well OW57-32 (beside pumping well W4)  doesn't upset them because they have zero knowledge of the history of disinformation and coverup of DNAPL both on and off the former Uniroyal site. 

Is it possible that Uniroyal/Lanxess at this late date want some kind of recognition that Uniroyal was not the only dirty polluter of solvents and chemicals in Elmira?  Nutrite/Yara did contribute Ammonia to our drinking water aquifers and now we know that Varnicolor followed in Uniroyal's footsteps. How beneficial would it be for Lanxess to be able to say that well their predecessor Uniroyal was only one of several local polluters? Adding another half dozen or so suspects is an interesting angle.

What about the decades late admission that so many other companies in town used chlorobenzene in their processing? With 2,000 kilograms of excess chlorobenzene already pumped out of our Municipal Aquifers we already knew that there had to be other sources. I figured that the DNAPL beside W4 was the main culprit but now the revelation of chlorobenzene use by First St., Union St. and Howard St. companies muddies those waters. Did the DNAPL flow all the way from Uniroyal or were one or more of the closer sources  responsible?

Could part of the decision to release (confirm) these two old facts i.e. Varnicolor guilt and DNAPL at W4/Howard St. water tower plus the new one about six to eight chlorobenzene sources in Elmira near Uniroyal/Lanxess be no more than pettiness as in geez we don't want him (me) making the announcement and getting any credit for his knowledge. In fact while they confirmed what I told them in 2006 about OW57-32R (water tower) the discovery of multiple nearby potential DNAPL sources might just be to a) get Uniroyal/Lanxess off the source of the DNAPL at W4 and b) make me look incorrect in thinking it came from Uniroyal or Varnicolor etc.