OUR AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO REFUSE CALLS FOR A HEALTH STUDY IN ELMIRA

How many premature deaths does it require? Why do we the citizens of Elmira have zero data or statistics to be able to see if there are and have been cancer clusters here? The health results to exposure to both solvents, pesticides and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are well known. Uniroyal Chemical drenched their soils, groundwater and surface water (Creek) and air in all of them. Tumours, diabetes, cancers and a host of other illnesses are the well known results of subjecting human beings to certain chemicals. ................................................................................................................................. To this day the groundwater both on and off their site is contaminated above drinking water standards with NDMA, one of the most carcinogenic compounds known to mankind. One of the other highly carcinogenic and worse compounds namely dioxins and furans are still in the soils also on and off the Uniroyal site. Despite this our authorities continue to suppport and insulate Uniroyal/Lanxess from calls for honest and appropriate soil testing off their site. This doesn't just include the already proven dioxins and DDT etc. that flowed eastwards onto the Stroh property and likely southwards onto the Martin property. DNAPLS leaving the Uniroyal site westwards onto the former Nutrite (Yara) property and possibly even further likely carried dioxins/furans and DDT along with them. DNAPLS of course are Dense Non Aqueous Phase Liquids that gravity flow underground and slowly over decades or centuries dissolve into the groundwater. ............................................................................................................................. Any honest jurisdiction would long ago have properly and scientifically determined exactly where both the DNAPLS and Dioxins etc. flowed off-site. They then, instead of covering up the health crisis, would have either removed them or rendered them immobile by various technologies including encapsulation. Unfortunately Elmira and area does not reside in an honest jurisdiction that puts both citizen and wildlife health ahead of corporate profits and or municipal budgets.