Tuesday, February 18, 2020
MAP CLARIFICATIONS & UPDATES
By going to the year 2019 in the Archives section of this Blog (right hand side) and then scrolling down to July one can get to my July 17, 2019 post titled "Time For A Third Map". At the end of the text is a colour photograph of my large (3'x 2 1/2') map originally produced in 2014 which shows the entire east side of the Uniroyal/Lanxess property as well as the Stroh Ditch, Drain and Berm (SDDB). Unfortunately even though the ground surface contour lines are drawn and numbered on my map, the photograph does not pick them up clearly, especially the numbers (eg. 347.0 meters above sea level).
I am in the process of correcting this and providing TAG members (& interested CPAC members) with a similar, colour 11"x17" map with the ground surface contour lines clearly marked and numbered. This plus some text on the back explains what the different arrows (orange, red) on the map represent as well as a legend indicating what various short forms such as RPE, RPW and TPE stand for.
My expectation is that this map and accompanying text will be a form of necessary spoon feeding of important information to all with legitimate concerns about the state of cleanup and non cleanup of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) still entering the Canagagigue Creek. This map as it has for nearly the last six years is a smoking gun proving that the bulk of the POPs which overflowed from the east side pits (RPE 1-5) gravity flowed over to the Stroh farm on the east side of the Uniroyal/Lanxess property. While it is not citizens' responsibility to produce evidence of the exact location of an off the polluter's site, probable "sink" of POPs such as dioxins/furans and DDT, nevertheless that is exactly what this map does. I refer to a "necessary spoon feeding of important information". This is because neither Lanxess nor the Ministry of Environment have provided TAG members with the appropriate ground surface contour lines drawn by either the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) or by Uniroyal/Lanxess's consultants, Conestoga Rovers (CRA). Those maps will confirm the contour lines that I have drawn and then added flow direction arrows as the liquid wastes gravity flowed downhill southerly and easterly over to the Stroh farm property.
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So the man-made north to south drain/ditch is the critical evidence that ties+binds+links the Chemical Company to the Stroh farm as having jointly worked on (involved)draining overflow and or seepage from the Chemical Company southward/downhill.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that "neither Lanxess nor the Ministry of Environment have provided TAG members with the appropriate ground surface contour lines drawn by either the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) or by Uniroyal/Lanxess's consultants, Conestoga Rovers (CRA)" indicates they are either all pretty stupid or most probably are complicit in the seepage and drain knowingly. These so called professionals are avoiding the testing and reporting of these specific areas because they have direct knowledge of the drain+coverup/burial!
Is the Stroh farm elevation adjoining (on the east of the Stroh Drain/ditch) lower or higher in elevation than the elevation on the Lanxess site where the most leakage/drainage of chemicals would have occurred? Can the Stroh-farm claim they were draining their own highground to the southward... or in any way attempt to separate their involvement with the Chemical Company?
Both the Stroh farm (east) and the Martin farm (south) have lower elevations than most of the Lanxess property. The Stroh property owner certainly has his own financial interest not to confirm decades of leakage from Uniroyal Chemical onto his property. That ship has sailed however at the north end of the Uniroyal/Lanxess property bordering the Stroh farm as some cleanup and remediation was done there a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteThis "remediation" that ocurred would simply insure that even if one would test soil anywhere in the so called remediated area now they would be testing the new fill and not the original soil. This remediation was a very very clever move for all the conspirators.
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