We had people step up and some people go down, and it was hard-fought all the way to the end. It was a team effort all the way down the line.

We're ready to start talking about next year's goals. We'd like to become one of those regular teams that are at state, year in and year out.

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

We made it by the skin of our teeth.

It's not a growing plume. It's that, as we were able to install more monitoring wells, we were better able to delineate the plume. We feel confident that we've reached the edge of the plume.

Since August we have been able to install additional monitoring wells and feel we now have reached the delineation of the plume. You can never be 100 percent certain, but this is the best knowledge we have to date based on sampling results.