MY TUESDAY DELEGATION To WOOLWICH COUNCIL IS POSTPONED

It is unfortunate however necessary as sometimes life intrudes upon one's plans. Likely my Delegation in regards to the properties east and south of the Lanxess property and their impact upon the Canagagigue Creek will be rescheduled for August 13, 2019. Initially I was going to speak as a Delegate to the May 16, 2019 RAC (Remediation Advisory Committee) meeting however that august body had their meeting postponed from mid May to September 5, 2019. That to my mind pretty much sends the message to all citizens that take both the Elmira aquifer contamination and the Canagagigue Creek contamination seriously; that our politicians and varying authorities do not.

RAC were advertised by Sandy Shantz as a group of concerned stakeholders. What a joke! They consist of the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA), Region of Waterloo (RMOW), Woolwich Township, Lanxess, GHD, and the Ontario Ministry of Environment (MOE/MECP). Some of those so called "stakeholders" had been missing in action for more than a decade and had not attended CPAC meetings much less sat as members. I will say that the Region of Waterloo had done good things in the past and they preceded their departure from the long ago CPAC with a warning that if CPAC did not listen more carefully and pay more attention to their position that they would depart as they did.

Hopefully my Delegation to Council will occur on August 13/19. While certain Council members such as Sandy and Murray (at the minimum) may prefer citizen Delegations about Lanxess and contamination go to RAC rather than council, that is too bad. Especially it is too bad as Sandy fairly recently reduced the minimum number of yearly RAC meetings to three. Yes three! That too speaks to me as an attempt to slowly wind things down. I'm sure that Lanxess and their consultants GHD would like to run their mickey mouse Risk Assessment game on the Canagagigue Creek and get their pre-determined minimal cleanup so that they can put this whole thing behind them. Of course the result will be the never ending and still ongoing slow leakage of contamination both from on-site (Lanxess) as well as from off-site areas that were impacted by Uniroyal Chemical but never acknowledged. This would include the former Nutrite site as well as possibly near OW57-33 (Elmira Water Tower) (DNAPLS) unless of course the ones near the water tower came from Borg Textiles. It also includes Persistent Organic pollutants (POPs) on the Stroh property east of Lanxess.