I"M HALF WAY THROUGH OR MORE THE 450 PAGES IN APPENDIX C OF THE RISK ASSESSMENT

Today's post is relevant to both last Monday's and last Saturday's posts here in the Advocate. The difference is I am well over 100 pages further along in my analysis of the raw data. It is frankly a disgusting exercise. There are in places tens of pages in a row with either DDT or dioxin results but the same sediment samples have not been analyzed for PAHs, PCBs or a multitude of pesticides such as lindane, eldrin, endrin, endosulfan and many more. The contaminant bias is becoming clearer and clearer. It is becoming even worse than the locational bias I have written about before. Clearly Uniroyal/Lanxess are trying to sell the public a bill of goods. Yes the 450 pages of raw data are available to TAG members but trust me none of them, all with full time jobs, have examined 250-300 pages carefully as I have. The results are stunningly bad as far as this being even remotely a legitimate Risk Assessment either for human beings or the ecology. ................................................................................................................................... PCBs were regularly found in 1995-97 when they were analyzed for. When they were Non-Detect it was generally at a Method Detection Limit of 20 parts per billion (ppb) which of course hides the lower concentration PCBs. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) were also regularly found in the mid 1990s. Like PCBs they were also regularly NOT found or analyzed for after that. These compounds include anthracene, pyrene, benzo a pyrene, fluorene, pyrelene, napthalene and many others. They are highly toxic. One potential slipup was a sediment sample analyzed in August 2015. Unbelievably, fifty years supposedly after the overflowing east side ponds quit overflowing and discharging, twenty different PAHs were found with concentrations from Trace levels up to 240 ppb. Pesticides are similar. There are about 25 of them listed and usually ignored during analysis of samples. Highly toxic Lindane was commonly found in sediments etc. during the mid 1990s. A few samples wwere analyzed in 2014 and found low levels (1-3 ppb.) of chlordane, and cis & trans nonachlor. Other pesticides during a very rare sampling found seven different Uniroyal Chemical pesticides present at concentrations of 1-2 ppb.. ............................................................................................................................................... I just came upon a PCB sample in creek sediments at a concentration of 320 parts per billion (ppb). Another one is at 220 ppb. In the last paragraph I mentioned an August 2015 analysis for PAHs. Well the same sampling event however at a different location also came up with PAHs, some at concentrations of 230, 240 and 250 ppb. The two prizewinners, pyrene and fluoranthene were at 440 ppb and 500 ppb. Interestingly one of the highest recent levels of pesticides in sediments were sampled and sent for professional analysis by CPAC in 2015. These results are in this Risk Assessment and have concentrations as high as 530 ppb of Fluoranthene. ............................................................................................................................................ There are a number of conclusions. PCBs, PAHs (20 of them) and 25 different pesticdes other than DDT are not being regularly analyzed for. At the same time when they are analyzed for, they are found to be present. All of these compounds are toxic and do not belong in animals, birds, fish, reptiles or human beings. The alleged criteria for them are based upon each chemical, absolutely by itself, having a certain numerical safe concentration. Nobody knows what the toxicity of exposure to multiple chemical compounds simultaneously is. What we do know is that a Risk Assessment based upon DDT and dioxins/furans primarily is a joke when there are so many other toxic compounds in the creek being studiously ignored AND when humans present have already been exposed for decades. The last conclusion is this: Uniroyal/Crompton/Chemtura/Lanxess have cheerfully and patiently delayed and delayed beginning cleanup of the Canagagigue Creek. No wonder when every day their toxins continue to leave their property and migrate downstream towards the Grand River. Should they be financially rewarded for their complicity in using downstream citizens as guinea pigs since 1943?