01/10/2013 email to Roger Rayle from Farsad Fotouhi
Roger - Happy New Year. I hope you had a great holiday. I know we have not
communicated for a while. I thought it would be good for you and I to be
communications more often.
I know you have various concerns, and I would like to be able to address at
least some of them.. I believe the most immediate matter that you are concerned
about is the lack of data. Would you please let me know what data you are
missing from your files. The other concern you have is related to accuracy of
the data when the historical data transferred from the old database to the new
database.
So, would you please send me an email with some of your concerns. I hope this
helps us to resolve some of issues you have with the remediation.
Thank you.
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Farsad Fotouhi
PALL CORPORATION
600 South Wagner Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
(734) 913 - 6130
01/11/2013 Roger Rayle's response email to Farsad Fotouhi:
Farsad--
A good first step would be for you to restore the DEQ's online, read-only access to your dioxane & bromate sampling, static water level, and well log database so the public can see how Pall's dioxane (& bromate) is affecting our Waters of the State. This would include a full description of all fields/schema in the database, including explanation of all codes used, and data update/data reporting/data quality control/quality assurance procedures is use.
The DEQ should be able to download a selected set of data in an industry-standard format (Excel, csv, tab-delimited, etc) in one export and not have to append several batches to get complete results.
I'd be willing to compare the exported data with the data from the old database once again to see where the data is still missing or changed so you can explain why data is missing or changed... and tell us which results are valid. Right now anyone doing analysis on the data cannot trust which dataset to use.
If Pall could show that it can handle data collection, conversion and reporting in an open, competent manner, that would help restore confidence that it can do a protective, effective and community-acceptable cleanup.
Then we all can sit down and discuss other issues.
--Roger--
Roger Rayle
Chair, Scio Residents for Safe Water (SRSW)
Member, Coalition for Action on Remediation of Dioxane (CARD)
rmrayle@gmail.com
02/24/2013 Roger Rayle's follow-up email to Farsad Fotouhi:
Farsad--
You've had over a month to respond to my Jan 11 response to your Jan 10 email. You seemed interested in reestablishing communications and fixing your ongoing data problems, yet nothing from you for 44 days. It makes me think that Pall really doesn't want to fix the problems... many of which have been lingering for more than six years.
--Roger--
Roger Rayle
Chair, Scio Residents for Safe Water (SRSW)
Member, Coalition for Action on Remediation of Dioxane (CARD)
rmrayle@gmail.com
Still no response as of 11/06/2013