FURTHER REVIEW OF CHLOROBENZENE DNAPL EVIDENCE AS FAR BACK AS 1998

 

One of my favourite quotes(?) eh statements (I can find the quote if needed) is that the purpose of off-site pumping well W4 was to pump large amounts of dissolved chlorobenzene from the Elmira Aquifers. Early on (1998) this pumping well was screened in both the Municipal Upper (MU) and the Municipal Lower (ML)  Aquifers. Indeed this pumping well pumped a couple of thousands of kilograms worth of chlorobenzene from its' location beside the Howard St. water tower and observation well OW57-32(R). Oh and I might add it was pumping high strength chlorobenzene with early concentrations including 3000, 3300, 3400, 4400 and 5600 parts per billion (ppb.) These concentrations equal or exceed the 1% Solubility Rule which states that concentrations greater than 1% of the compound's (chlorobenzene) solubility in water means that most likely free phase DNAPL is nearby!

Which it was and was actually pumped up from where it was sitting on the aquitard 33 metres below ground surface during the replacement of observation well OW57-32 with OW57-32 (R) . "R" stands for replacement. This occurred around June 1998. As it took me some time to find this out I can only surmise that I was otherwise occupied with a $2,000,000 libel suit filed against me and my wife by an ignorant bitch with support from her schoolboard. She got zero ($) and sure as hell no apology.

Further chlorobenzene DNAPL evidence has emerged over the years which I have been posting about here particularly the last week or so. All the guilty parties have denied these DNAPLS and others since the early 1990s at least. Oh and what is even more ironic/hypocritical is Dr. Neil Thompson's Conceptual Site Model (2017) in which he stated that there was an excess 2,000 kilograms of chlorobenzene over expectations and calculations in the Elmira Aquifers. Allegedly nobody knew where it came from.

BULLS*IT it was free phase DNAPL that gravity flowed most likely from the south-west corner of the Uniroyal Chemical site and which recently has been identified by Jesse Wright (Arcadis Inc.) has a number of potential chlorobenzene sources near First St., Union St. and Howard Ave. in Elmira.