COUNCIL MEETING THIS TUESDAY & TAG MEETING THIS THURSDAY

The TAG Agenda for this Thursday (6:30 pm.) was sent out yesterday along with the Minutes from the May 9/19 TAG meeting. This Tuesday at 7 pm. I will be a Delegate at Woolwich Council speaking about Canagagigue Creek issues and possible solutions. The TAG meeting two days later will also likely touch upon some of these identical issues. Certainly the 32 page handout (Agenda & Minutes) has some very interesting maps showing primarily Lanxess's south-east corner via Google Earth although a picture of my large 2 1/2 foot by 3 1/2 foot map is also included which shows the entire east side of the site as well as part of the west side.

Joe Kelly had a hand held device that read ground surface elevations and it did indicate the direction of surface water flow into the former wetland area to the immediate west of the Stroh Drain, Ditch, and Berm (SDDB). It also indicated surface flow into a small and shallow pond just south of the former RPE-5. Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach indicated his belief that overland flow of massive quantities of Uniroyal Chemical's waste water would quickly fill the small pond and move further south and then east onto the Stroh property. Indeed Uniroyal and Chemtura themselves have clearly indicated that the waste waters flowed well past the tiny unnamed pond, past the SDDB and into GP-1 and GP-2. GP-2 in fact is right at the extreme southern boundary of the Uniroyal/Lanxess property.

Of course water and accompanying contaminants will flow via gravity towards the lowest lying areas. Contaminated waste water does not flow towards the most accessible and least expensive to clean up areas just because polluters' hired guns (consultants) say so.