MEMORIES ARE A TRICKY THING ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A JOB OR FINANCIAL BIAS

Many times Jeff Merriman, environmental engineer at Chemtura in Elmira, has regaled us with his allegedly first hand observations during on-site remediation efforts. I have been quite pleased to look up the written records of those same remediations and prove Jeff incorrect. Interestingly, every single time, Jeff's alleged observations have always been of benefit to his employer, Chemtura Canada. Just sayin! Recently Graham Chevreau and Ron Campbell have indicated their dismay at what they refer to as Jeff's "calibrated" eyeballs. Apparently Jeff is able to determine the extent of soil contamination by visual observation thus negating the need for lab chemical soil analyses.

Today I was doing some light reading through the Annual Monitoring Report #12 (1993). It describes in glowing detail from page 63 to 66, including chemical analyses in Tables, the results of the partial excavation of TPW2 in 1993. Contrary to what Jeff has advised this current CPAC, hard tars were not the only type of NAPLS found. There were hard tars, soft tars and free flowing LNAPL as well. These tars were analysed and were a cornucopia of Uniroyal Chemical signature chemicals including Dense Non Aqueous Phase Liquids. Also leachate tests were performed on both the hard and soft tars and while there were different toxic chemicals released in water, both tars did leach into the water. Chemicals included 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T the components of Agent Orange.

Therefore Jeff as once again your memory is so bad perhaps in future rather than sharing it you could instead provide written documentation backing up your self serving claims. Thankyou.