In a letter dated March 27, Greg Workman, hazardous wastes section manager at the ADEQ responded to the request from the supervisors. In the letter, Workman claims that "no groundwater contamination has been found above background concentrations or drinking water standards".

       Workman's claim that "no groundwater contamination has been found above background concentrations or drinking water standards", is contradicted by an October 20 statement by ADEQ that the ADEQ doesn't know if methylene chloride exists at concentrations up to twice the legal limit in the water beneath Page-Trowbridge or not.

              Contacted by phone on Oct. 31, Jim Walters, of the hazardous waste permits unit of ADEQ confirmed that the ADEQ has not known the specific amounts of methylene chloride detected in water from the Page-Trowbridge monitoring wells since 1992. All that ADEQ knows from test results for the last eight years is that the methylene chloride concentration is no higher than twice the legal limit for this federally regulated contaminant.

      At the time Workman assured the Pinal County Supervisors that "no groundwater contamination has been found above background concentrations or drinking water standards", ADEQ apparently had no reports to substantiate Workman's claim.

       I informed the Pinal county board of supervisors of the misrepresentation by ADEQ at a public hearing held Nov. 1 to consider a rezoning request by Robson Communities. The supervisors expressed little interest and asked no questions.

       At that hearing, the Supervisors approved the rezoning request allowing 6,000 homes, a commercial center and several golf courses to be built on land adjacent to Page-Trowbridge.