It's always the same. No need for a health study because non health experts have already pre-determined the outcome using their physic powers combined with their political prowess. Politicians with their extensive training in generally nothing deem themselves experts in everything. Hence clearly no need for a health study. That could only bring bad news whereas without a health study we can assume the best case scenario. Problem therefore solved!
Next point. It's DNAPLS you twits! DNAPLS DNAPLS & more DNAPLS. Nothing screams DNAPLS like TCE (trichlororethylene). Despite this the word DNAPL is not in the Record's article, not even once. Instead there is some description by a lay person about sub surface clay being responsible for pools of TCE. This is a gross simplification that should have been clarified by either the Region or the Min. of Environment. However just like here in Elmira our dishonest and corrupt authorities never want to mention that word (DNAPL) for fear that curious citizens will look it up and learn the horrors and consequences of it.
Clay or lack of clay does not produce pools or free phase DNAPLS. Excessive amounts of trichloroethylene spilled or dumped onto the ground produces these pools and flows of essentially pure TCE below ground surface. Yes either a depression in an area of lower permeability silt or clay whether within a permeable aquifer or within a basically less permeable clay or silt aquitard can capture and hold a pool of this undissolved (free phase) DNAPL TCE. Depending upon the size of the depression and size of the pool of pure TCE, it can take decades to even centuries to fully dissolve into the groundwater flowing past it.
Hence keep in mind that small quantities of TCE can dissolve into and move with groundwater. Yes these small quantities can exceed the Ontario drinking water standards (ODWS). I believe that both dissolved in groundwater TCE as well as free phase TCE can volatolize into toxic vapours which most certainly can be lethal at acute concentrations in the short term and or lethal at much lower concentrations over longer time frames. I might add that right this second I'm not 100% certain that both dissolved TCE and free phase TCE can volatolize into toxic vapours. These vapours can then migrate through foundation cracks or other openings (for household services such as gas, water, electric etc.) including floor drains etc.
Basically the Bishop St. community in Cambridge were sold a Bill of Goods when they were told that ten years of backyard garden sheds with activated carbon filters would be the end of their problems. DNAPLS literally can take decades to centuries to slowly dissolve. This is similar to the bull**it sold to Elmira residents that thirty years of pump & treat technology would clean up our drinking water aquifers. Our authorities are terrified to ever admit to their lack of oversight and supervision of well known polluting industries. They will never tell us how little oversight companies like Varnicolor, Uniroyal, Northstar Aerospace, Canadian General Tower etc. have received over many decades.
It is even possible that recent K-W Record articles regarding Uniroyal/Elmira (Nov. 15/25) and this one in today's Record titled "It's not going away" are less about finally informing citizens and more about setting the stage for future public acceptance of a Lake Erie water pipeline to Waterloo Region. Funny how much the Region of Waterloo have talked up their wonderful groundwater and their world class staff and infrastructure for decades. Now we are hearing a different story.
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