Post date: Sep 01, 2014 4:12:43 AM
October 14, 2000
Comments on Pall-Gelman's 5-year "Plan" (continued from 9/27/2000 entry.)
This 5-year "plan" is fraught with inconsistencies, omissions, and lack of detail.
Pall-Gelman proposes cutbacks in purge rates and monitoring frequencies. According to the schedule in the "plan", they propose to cut samples/year from 775/yr to 435/yr (a 44% cut). Initial purge rates for Evergreen go up from about 144 gpm to 200 gpm, but the rates for the core purge wells go from about 300 gpm down to 225 gpm, a 25% reduction.
This isn't a cleanup plan... it's a prescription on how to turn half of Scio Township and a good part of Ann Arbor into a "Brownfield". In this era of paving over brownfields being called "Brownfield RE-development Programs, this is the next step: a Brownfield Development Program... it will create a huge brownfield (at pre-1995 levels) for miles around the plant and maybe all the way to the Huron River over the coming Decades.
Pall-Gelman proposes quarterly submittals and even though the order clearly requires monthly reporting.
In order to do proper analysis of the site, one needs full well log data (elevation, depth, screened interval, water level, x-y location coordinates, etc.) for all monitoring and purge wells in electronic form whenever any well data is added or updated.
A new well location map should be provided with each well data addition or update, and the map should show all well locations.
There should be quarterly project meetings with local govt and citizen reps.
The State has to tell the judge the truth about this bogus 5-year "plan" and why it is so deplorable. It's obvious that, so far, the judge had to make his decisions without seeing some key information