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ANDY LAURENT: A letter of support would certainly be appreciated. Obviously we are working on a tight deadline because we are trying to get this out the door tomorrow. The more opinions that we have in support of our letter the better. JOANN SPORLEDER: Are you taking down these buildings first and then doing the remediation? ANDY LAURENT: Remediation first. Depending on how big the source area is, we may have to take down some parts of these buildings in order for us to get to this source area. The long term strategy is for demolition of all of these buildings, it's simply that we do not have the money right now to do this. Remediation is the pressing concern and that is what we want to get rid of first. JOANN SPORLEDER: You feel like you can do this remediation even if the building is in place? ANY LAURENT: The strategy that is called for is remediation activities, which in essence entails injecting hydrogen peroxide into the ground and it chemically oxidizes the compounds which basically create carbon dioxide, water, and salt which will help to clean out the ground. There will be two different applications of this done and they estimate that it will take about two years for these applications to take effect. MARTHA CHOITZ: Has any pollution been found in any homes around the area? ANDY LAURENT: No, all of the properties that are down radius are institutional, commercial, or industrial. There are only about, between here and the river --eventual out fall of this ground water --there are only by our estimation about twelve wells, and everyone else is on city water. We believe the majority of these wells are for sprinkler systems, and actually Gates has one for their car washing. MARTHA CHOITZ: What about if you live by a creek or things that have been covered up? ANDY LAURENT: Well, the ground water at this stage is slowly moving towards the river so there are no fast moving water currents. JOANN SPORLEDER: Have you done any test wells or confronted any test wells near the river? ANDY LAURENT: Well, the city has test wells around the wells themselves; John, you could probably speak for this one, and we have compared the results and these chemicals that we are dealing with are not reaching the wells. JOHN OXIAN: They have already tested those exploratory wells over there to see if there is any pollution, mainly because of Memorial Hospital—someone has already put in some monitoring wells.