One handwritten junk note multiplied claimed TCE use tenfold

Evidence

It said: “Up ’til September; Used trichloro, 150 gallons.” To Schlichtmann, this could only mean that the Grace plant had used 150 gallons—slightly less than three 55-gallon drums—in the first nine months of 1973. If that inference was true, it meant the plant had consumed four drums of TCE a year up until 1973, not merely four drums throughout its entire history. And that translated into fifty or more drums of TCE. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 963

Categorization

• CANDY: A lawyer’s whole case resting on a scrawled ‘up ‘til September’ — the anti-glamour of document discovery.
• XREF: connects to: Groundwater contamination like TCE can persist for thousands of years — Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, 3138; DNAPL contaminants like TCE can be expected to persist for decades or even centuries — System for alleviating DNAPL contamination in groundwater

Broader Connections

• Groundwater contamination like TCE can persist for thousands of years #corroborates (0.75) — Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, 3138