REPORT CONFIRMS SOURCE OF CONTAMINATION

As promised, forensic geologist Robert Hayes of Geoforensics Inc. has produced a report regarding the source of the soil dumped into the abandoned concrete water tanks of the City's old water filtration plant on Monroe Avenue. Per Hayes:

"It is the opinion of GeoForensics, Inc. that comparisons, as presented above, of relatively recent WFP [i.e., Filtration Plant] soil samples with soil samples from B&G property [i.e., The Boardwalk] collected in 1999, show that the WFP soil originated at the B&G property."

Hayes noted that the contaminants in both soils were the same. Furthermore, he ranked those contaminants for each soil sample in terms of concentration. Ranking the contaminants by concentration created a fingerprint for each sample, and comparing those "fingerprints" Hayes was able to show that the source of Filtration Plant soil was The Boardwalk, formerly known as the Berkey & Gay Building. Hayes also pointed out that the fingerprints of samples from near the surface of the Berkey & Gay soil matched with the fingerprints of samples from the bottom of the Filtration Plant tanks, and vice versa. This would be expected if the Berkey & Gay soil had been excavated and then dumped at the Filtration Plant. The stuff at the top would the first into the tanks at the Filtration Plant, and so on.

Videotapes, photographs, soil tests, and expert analysis. What more evidence could the state possibly need to act?