MY DELEGATION TO RAC NEXT THURSDAY

First off it will be similar to the one I recently presented to Woolwich Council on August 13 and posted about here on August 14/19. There are electronic versions now of both my original 2 1/2 foot wide by 3 1/2 foot tall map of the east side of the Lanxess property as well as the updated version which has yellow arrows on it indicating the flow path of overland waste waters from the former waste pits and ponds (RPE 1-5) southwards and eastwards to the Stroh property. The few red arrows indicate where the dioxins/furans, DDT, and more likely settled out into a large depression on the land surface of the Stroh property. A Woolwich staff person, Lisa probably, will handle putting the electronic maps up onto the two overhead screens so that the RAC members can better view them.

I may focus more in this delegation on the sources of my data namely the GRCA, MOE, CRA/GHD etc. This will also likely include the sources of the ground surface contour lines on my map. In other words the facts are undisputed. What is in ridiculous dispute is Lanxess's, GHD's and the MOE's attempts to say that the waste waters somehow did not gravity flow over onto the Stroh property. The stakes are high of course. Both the environmental stakes for the public as well as the financial stakes for the company are large. The Canagagigue Creek has shown itself to be incredibly resistant to quickly flushing all these chemicals from the past, downstream to be enjoyed both by the Grand River as well as down into Kitchener-Waterloo. It appears obvious that there is an ongoing source either still on the Lanxess property or just off their property that has acted as a "sink" over the decades and is slowly giving up its toxic contents to the Creek. Lanxess like their predecessor corporations will diligently search out the least expensive "fix" that they can find.