TRAC PATIENTLY ? WAITS AND WAITS AND WAITS.

  TRAC and the public should have known decades ago what the MECP and Chemtura/Lanxess plans for the downstream Creek were. No such luck even after the completion of the highly bogus HHERA (Human Health & Ecological Risk Assessment).  Lanxess and the MECP are keeping citizens, the public and most (not all) of TRAC on a string. Vague references to some "hot spot" removal downstream in light of broken promises over the last 3  1/2 decades isn't acceptable.

Then we have suggestions that a new Control Order/ECA or some other instrument will address the failure to achieve drinking water standards for either NDMA or chlorobenzene (and likely lots more) . This new Order from the Ontario Min. of Environment will do little or nothing. We don't even know what the new date for cleanup is supposed to be much less how they are going to achieve it. There are lots of new and old excuses right now suggesting the impossibility of reducing NDMA especially down to it's very low drinking water standard of .009 ppb (parts per billion).  Very little is being said about the chlorobenzene failures in both the Municipal Upper and Municipal Lower Aquifers. This is likely based upon the word DNAPL having been surgically removed from their vocabularies either at birth or upon graduation.

On-site source removal is also very unusual to hear raised or discussed at TRAC meetings. It's almost as if all prospective new members have to give a pledge of allegiance to Lanxess, GHD and the Ministry (MECP).  It really is bizarre how with but one exception (Sebastian) no TRAC members ever raise any of the really touchy, difficult issues. Yes I will concur that they have asked appropriate questions regarding inadequate on and off site pumping rates however they need to get their backs up when the guilty and in charge parties fail to properly answer them.

Then there is the Stroh property/farm. While agreeing after decades of lying that some ground and surface water flowed eastwards onto the Stroh farm, Lanxess and earlier owners did a coverup job along the eastern border between the company and Stroh. Their monitoring whether soil, sediment, or groundwater was pathetic. Picking and choosing your way on a contaminated property to avoid hits is child's play for client driven consultants. Hiding facts and discriminating against citizens wishing to both speak publicly to TRAC and to ask them questions is the behaviour of  undemocratic, dishonest skunks. A superb lack of decency, ethics and morals knowingly aided and abetted by all levels of governance. They made a deal not in the public interest and they are sticking to it until they don't.