For at least a few years now both Lanxess (Ramin) and Dr. Neil Thompson (U. of Waterloo) have been advising Elmira folks that there indeed is another source of chlorobenzene to the Elmira Aquifers. That is no surprise to me and in fact I expect eventually for admissions that possibly Sanyo or McKee as well as Borg Textiles and Varnicolor Chemical also added NDMA and or more to the aquifers.
Ramin's latest public statements includes the following at the TRAC meeting of April 25/24: "The two graphs actually cross where chlorobenzene has been increasing while NDMA has been decreasing and that's not what we see anywhere else in any of the wells on this project." Ramin is referring to a graph presented at 1:25:15 of the meeting which shows NDMA and chlorobenzene concentrations over time at well CH-75B located just east of pumping well W3R which is just east of Industrial Dr. near the muffler shop. The date was 2017 09 22.
Reread Ramin's words now. It makes absolutely no sense for two mature contaminant plumes under remediation to be going in opposite directions (concentrations up and down) at the same time. Is it possible that the second (or third) source of chlorobenzene is still discharging today into the natural environment?
Wow that would make the Ministry of Environment look even more incompetent and corrupt than we already know they are. Woolwich too??
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