[justlurking]

I can't believe they are still trying to figure out what is going on. I saw the mystery solved right in front of me -- apparently they don't want to believe it.

I was at a pilot's meeting at that airport over 10 years ago, where a representative from the Metropolitan Airport Commission was talking about future plans for the airport. During the discussion, the contamination came up (because the groundwater under the airport is undrinkable).

Among the attendees was a guy that had lived in the area for years. He said that some years before, trucks would show up in the middle of the night near an abandoned well just west of the airport. They never knew what was going on, but it seems pretty clear now: someone was dumping stuff down the abandoned well.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Gee, an abandoned well just west of the airport...

Plus (unidentified) trucks dumping (unidentified) fluids (multipole times) at (multiple) nights into that abandoned well....

And this fact was well-known in public forums 10 years ago!

AND THESE F**KING GOVERNMENT IDIOTS SPEND 16 YEARS TRYING TO TRACK DOWN THE SOURCE!

Yeah right.

Bush is "so anti-environment isn't he? .... Shows you the quality of these so-called enviromental experts that Clinton-Clinton-Gore claim they hire.

8 years of Clinton's pro-environment intrusive federal government, and they can't even find ONE DUMP SITE AT ONE LOCAL AIRPORT when they know the plume trace and the local history.

One story on the web and we have a (verifiable) eye-witness and open meeting logs at the airport that can produce the complete story.

The best the imperial federal government can come up for all their millions of research is "possible" spray cleaners used on several "possible" private airplanes. And,of course, more land-use restrictions.