WEDNESDAY'S NATURE WALK OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "THE MIRACLE ON ERB ST. "

 

LANXESS CANADA WALK ON LIQUID WASTES & TALK THEM INTO FLOWING UPHILL

Luis Almeida (GHD) and Hadley Stamm (Lanxess) have joined forces and done the impossible. While scientists the world over have long been constrained in determining flow paths of water as well as ground surface elevations via accepted principles, this pair have risen above the mundane. Survey monuments, markers and professional topographical surveys and maps simply are not relevant to this pair. They have achieved a state known to but a few. It is expected that they will together produce a book rewriting all the rules and protocols and principles that engineers, geoscientists and others have been operating under for the last few hundred years at least.

Courage! Talk about courage. Luis works for GHD who merged with Conestoga Rovers (CRA) several years ago . Many (not all) of these topographical maps were produced by the scientists and engineers at CRA. Now Luis and Hadley have gently but firmly rejected these ground surface surveys (i.e. topographical or ground surface elevations) in favour of their own eyes and intellects. Even more incredible is that Chemtura and CRA had such confidence in these documents (2010-2013)  that they distributed them to CPAC members, Min. of Environment, Region of Waterloo, Woolwich Twn etc. Can anyone comprehend the brass, the chutzpah, the overwhelming confidence required to oppose the entrenched status quo?

I have no doubt that both Luis and Hadley may rise to the level of sainthood in the hydrogeological community. Their unflinching willingness to oppose standard, geophysical principles with no more armour than money, power and influence along with that of their partners in pollution, the Region, Woolwich, MECP etc. is a herculean task.

I am sure that their next steps will be either to rewrite all the topographical maps they've already released and or to hold a public meeting in which they demonstrate the new flow directions that they have discovered for their employers. How wonderful that these new flow directions could save Lanxess millions of dollars in cleanup costs (Stroh).