I've been trying to figure why Lanxess have suddenly decided to rat out one of their former corporate colleagues here in Elmira. While Varnicolor is long gone I believe that Glenoit is the newer name for Borg Textiles. Has a deal been done or are Lanxess simply too big to worry about legal issues by naming the second source? Another reason may be that if Lanxess/MECP are going to try and bullsh*t the public into believing that they've suddenly decided to properly remediate the Elmira Aquifers then they have to show some good faith. Good faith as in admitting who the second (or third?) source is. Doing this not only improves their credibility but it paints them in a more sympathetic light as in they've taken all the chlorobenzene blame for the last thirty-five years. Strangely (?) at the last RAC meeting Jason Rice (MECP) disagreed that there was a second source of chlorobenzene. Maybe he hasn't received the memo that it's O.K. 35 years later to tell the public that there were multiple bad pollution actors in Elmira for decades and that many of them contributed to poisoning the wellfields. Yes Uniroyal Chemical was likely the biggest and baddest (?) but Nutrite, Varnicolor and the about to be named one this Thursday at TRAC also contributed. Plus others still unnamed.
How about a second source of NDMA? I would say that that is more than just a possibility. From Varnicolor using the precurser to NDMA namely dimethylamine as a raw material in their commercial can coating process to the fact that higher than expected concentrations of NDMA were found from observation well CH38 beside Sanyo on Industrial Dr. for decades as well as further south closer to the south wellfield. Even the location of pumping well W3 and W3R give us a clue as the pumping wells were often very close to various off-site source areas. W3 /W3R is actually between Sanyo and the former McKee Harvester. Coincidence maybe . Pumping well W6A/B was a much later addition and is located at the extreme south end of the former Borg Textiles.
One thing all the guilty parties have shown themselves to be incapable of doing is being honest with Elmira/Woolwich citizens. As well they will never admit to the conspiracy between Uniroyal and the Ontario Ministry of Environment to minimize both parties negligence and incompetence in protecting our drinking water.
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