DNAPL SHAM INVESTIGATIONS PARTLY TO BLAME FOR 2028 ELMIRA GROUNDWATER CLEANUP FAILURE

 

Frank Rovers was a very smart individual. Further descriptions I do not know. He did however advise UPAC way back in the 1990s as to how much DNAPLS were spread across the Uniroyal Chemical subsurface and site. With the control of Minutes securely in the hands of the dishonest Woolwich it is unlikely that they would ever in a million years release those Minutes for public consumption. Frank, by the way, was the founder of Conestoga Rovers, the famous or infamous depending on your point of view, engineering and consulting company who moved on from the Love Canal (U.S.) to shilling for Uniroyal Chemical.

Contrary to later hydrogeological dictums, Frank Rovers advised UPAC (Uniroyal Public Advisory Committee) that there was way too much DNAPL, free phase and residual, spread across the Elmira site to attempt to remove. Since that time Drs. Cherry and Parker at the University of Waterloo have advised Susan B., Pat Mc, Wilf Ruland and I otherwise. That was in January 2007 and eventually led to my backstabbing and ouster from CPAC in the spring of 2008 by those same hyenas.

The problem with DNAPL is that while it dissolves slowly into groundwater nevertheless it does dissolve at concentrations in excess of the Ontario Drinking Water Standards (ODWS). Hence attempts at pump & treat technology will not be successful in the long run because the source of contamination is right there in the aquifer continuing to slowly dissolve over decades and even centuries.  Chlorobenzene is but one example of a DNAPL and it has since been determined that either 1000 lbs or 1000 kg. of chlorobenzene is in the Elmira Aquifers IN EXCESS of the initial estimates. This was discovered/determined by Dr. Thompson of the University of Waterloo while working for Chemtura/Lanxess to produce a proper Conceptual Site Model (CSM). Dr. Richard Jackson the original TAG Chair had referred to CRA's CSM as no more than a cartoon.

These issues are but some that never show up on either the RAC or TAG Agendas for discussion. Gosh I wonder why?