Patrick Simpson
142:33 - 142:56
"what that indicated to us was that contamination of the groundwater, which wasn't coming from us from any of the soil sample measurements, and was also in an area where we weren't storing any plastics, was actually coming from further upstream somewhere above us."
“what that indicated to us was that contamination of the groundwater, which wasn't coming from us from any of the soil sample measurements, and was also in an area where we weren't storing any plastics, was actually coming from further upstream somewhere above us.”
- Speaker
- Patrick Simpson
- Timestamp
- 142:33 – 142:56
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 8, 2026
From the transcript
So it's not flowing into the neighborhood, it's flowing away from the neighborhood. And given that directional flow, one of the locations where we had samples taken, there was no plastics stored there. It was, if you will, it was on the upstream side. And so as a result, what that indicated to us was that contamination of the groundwater, which wasn't coming from us from any of the soil sample measurements, and was also in an area where we weren't storing any plastics, was actually coming from further upstream somewhere above us. Which, you know, we gave all that data to DEC.
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