Chapter 71 Section 21

This was unexpected for Jane.He made great efforts to prove that the J. J. Riller Tannery polluted the two wells, but he completely ignored the W. R. Glass Company, thinking that everything should be self-evident from the geographical point of view.But, Jane thought, Jon Gashiva must have made a mistake somewhere, though I don't know where yet. Jane and Professor Charles Naxon spent several hours in the office that evening, going over Jon's testimony word for word.Professor George Pindel was away for a conference in Europe and could not be consulted with him.Before leaving, Professor Naxon took away several hydrology textbooks left by Professor Pinder.

The next day, Jon Gashiva continued to appear in court.He said wells G and H were pumping 1,100 gallons per minute when the pumps were running at full capacity.Even if W. R. Glass's groundwater did reach the two wells—Jon didn't actually admit it—it would be at most 5 gallons per minute, accounting for 0.5% of the total water flow, which is equivalent to the idiom It's a drop in the ocean. Professor Charles Nason had been listening intently to every word Jon had to say.At this time, he scribbled a few strokes in his notebook, then got up and left the court in a hurry. Two days after Professor Naxon left, the secretary of the firm kept calling, but he was nowhere to be found.There was no other way, Jane had no choice but to bite the bullet and face Jon Jiashiwa alone.In his cross-examination, Jane dared not touch the rock of W. R. Glass, so he turned the topic to J. J. Riller Tannery across the river.Jian En wants to play a trick to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

Jane took out the groundwater level data measured by Professor Pindel on the site of J.J. Riller Tannery on the day when the National Environmental Protection Agency conducted a simulated pumping experiment, and asked Jon Garshiva to calculate the flow of groundwater in court.As a result, Jon counted the tannery's groundwater into wells G and H. Judge Skinner listened with interest for a while, interrupted Jane's testimony, and asked Jon himself: "According to your point of view, the Apodrone River will form a channel between the two wells and the groundwater of the tannery. Barrier?"

"No, Your Honor," said Jon. "So, in your opinion, the groundwater will flow from the tannery under the bed of the Apodróna River to where the two wells are?" "It's entirely possible." "Your Honor," Jero Fisher protested, rising, "you cannot ask such a question." Walter Skinner waved his hand and motioned Gero to sit down, or rather—shut up. Jane succeeded.He successfully manipulated the witnesses of one defendant to attack the other.But he still doesn't know how to face his problems.Jane wondered in his heart, where did Professor Naxon go?

Professor Charles Naxon hid in the faculty library of Harvard Law School. He knew that only there would not be disturbed by others, so that he could calm down and do his research. Jon Jiaxiwa used a very complicated computer simulation program in court, and with Professor Naxon's conditions, he couldn't verify it in a short time.All his tools are just those few hydrology textbooks.Professor Naxon turned to the first page and started reading from the most basic.Perhaps it was because he was eager to find out the answer, or maybe it was because of what he had learned from Professor Pinder over the past few months, but Professor Naxon did not feel jerky when he read this kind of professional books.

Professor Naxon found the most basic Darcy's Law in hydrology mentioned by Professor Pindel, which is also the basic equation for calculating groundwater flow: Q=K·A·I This law states that the groundwater flow (Q) through a certain formation cross-section should be equal to the product of the water permeability (K) in that formation, the cross-sectional area (A) and the inclination (I) of the flow.Professor Naxon entered the relevant data listed by Jon in court one by one, and found that the two sides of the equation were not equal.You can add such and such conditions in the simulation process, or pre-determine such and such assumptions, but the basic laws must not be violated, Professor Naxon thought.He believed he had found the crux of the problem.

As soon as the court opened the next day, Jane Hilleman wrote down Darther's Law transformed by Professor Naxon on the blackboard: A=Q/K·I "Assuming you're using the correct K value, which is the extremely low permeability of groundwater in the formation," Jane told Jon Garshiva on the witness stand, "assuming your I value is also correct. , that is, the slope between W.R. Glass Food Machinery Factory and Well G and Well H. Please substitute the groundwater flow calculated by your computer simulation program into the right side of the equation to see what the result will be.”

Jon calculated the area A.Jane then asked him to divide by the width of the food machinery factory - which was also taken from Jon's own data - and the result should be the height of the cross section. "59 feet." Jon looked up from the calculator. "59 feet." Jane repeated.The large-scale diagram of the underground rock formation structure of the food machinery factory made by Jon himself stood on the shelf next to it. Jon asked him to measure from the bedrock to the top according to the size ratio on the picture. "Ten feet above the ground." In other words, using Jon's own data to calculate, the location of the W. R. Glass Food Machinery Factory should be 10 feet underwater.

Afterwards, none of the reporters who reported the case wanted to believe that this hydrological calculation error was discovered by a law professor. Jon Garshiva is the last witness in the first phase of the Warburn trial. On Tuesday, July 1, at the request of the jury, Judge Skinner arranged for them to go to Woburn for a field visit, accompanied by the judge himself and all the lawyers.Afterwards, the jury will have nearly two weeks off. Judges and lawyers don't get a break, and they use the time to draft issues for the jurors to decide on.Usually, in the trial of this type of case, the simplest question is: "Do you agree with the plaintiff or the defendant?" The more complicated one, such as Jane's proposal this time: "Do you think the Birchers Group and W. R. Glass Company should be responsible for the pollution of the G and H wells before May 22, 1979?" On May 22, 1979, Gerald McColl, executive director of the Massachusetts Department of Environment, personally ordered the immediate The days when Well G and Well H were closed, since then, the two wells have never been reopened as domestic water for residents.But Jero Fischer and Mike Kayton sent a long list of very complex questions, as Judge Skinner argued that the exact timing of the arrival of TCE and other chemical contaminants at the two wells was crucial to the second phase of the case— — "Medical argument" — the trial is crucial.