WELL DONE WOOLWICH OBSERVER

Observer reporter, Faisal Ali, has attended the last two TAG meetings namely on January 24 and February 28, 2019. I hope that this will become regular coverage and that we will see him at regular TAG (Technical Advisory Group) and RAC (Remediation Advisory Committee) meetings. His story in today's Observer edition is titled, "Minding the gap is the latest push for group monitoring cleanup of Elmira chemical site. The "Gap" is aptly named as it is a low lying area between the Stroh and Lanxess properties that more than likely was the flow path for the hundreds of thousands of gallons per day of Uniroyal Chemical toxic waste waters that were pumped across the Canagagigue Creek into waste pits located on the extreme east side of Uniroyal right next to the Stroh farm.

Mr. Ali has quoted Joe Kelly, Chair Tiffany Svensson and Pat McLean, all of TAG, regarding their concerns that the Gap area be properly investigated and sampled. To date Chemtura and Lanxess have done their very best to avoid that and the litany of reasons and rationales have varied from reasonable to ridiculous. Most of the data Lanxess submitted is either irrelevant (wrong location) or incomplete and sketchy (OW14 groundwater sampling) and requires serious clarification and explanation.

One further comment is that more than one group are monitoring the cleanup. CPAC now known as the Citizens Public Advisory Committee (formerly Chemtura Public Advisory Committee) are also on the job and several CPAC members attended both the Januray 24 and February 28 TAG meetings.