"Lanxess has speculated that years ago, toxic chemicals called dioxins and furans were blown onto the farm by wind, or washed there by rain." This is a statement Jeff Outhit (reporter)wrote and was published in the January 4, 2019 Record . Of course it was but one of many over the decades that raised hopes that Uniroyal/Lanxess were going to do the right thing by both local residents and other downstream lifeforms.
It was not to be. Exercising their uncanny ability to contort truth and facts until they are unrecognizable, Lanxess have dogmatically insisted that they have examined the whole site. Perhaps this harkens back to their former environmental engineer, Jeff Merriman who ingenuously suggested that his world class nose and eyes could pick out sub-surface contamination with ease. No need for professional testing here folks as I (Jeff) declare that all is well.
Polluters like Uniroyal/Lanxess have learned how to battle stubborn pollution with words when they are unwilling to do the cleanup necessary. For example : "Soil tests have found a shallow ribbon of contaminated dirt on the farm, up to 500 metres long but limited to the top 15 centimetres and less than nine metres from the factory boundary." Isn't that just amazing. Perhaps the senior Mr. Stroh had put a sign on his property advising that " The premises are monitored 24/7 and any incursions by free flowing liquid toxic wastes past the nine metre mark will immediately result in a manure barrage." or some other equally insidious deterrent. Or perhaps the senior Mr. Stroh had buried sensors along his property line with Uniroyal/Lanxess deeper than 15 centimetres (5.9 inches) which threatened a barrage of contaminated earthworms would be unleashed upon the company.
The facts are clear. Lanxess have NOT properly sampled or tested the Stroh farm because they are afraid of the truth. They continue to lie and hide behind the Min. of Environment (MECP) as well as Woolwich Council who clearly have been indoctrinated into believing that they must support Uniroyal/Lanxess's verbal nonsense no matter the reality..
1. so they admit the ribbon of contamination 9 metres from the property line was also running from the north so the south by grade. 2. hmmm what would be the probable timing of this overflow/drain and location as compared to the proven and documented manmade drain/ditch? One thing for certain the manmade drain ditch was approved by the Stroh's. The manmade berm/swale and the ditch was done after contamination/runoff was discovered by the Stroh's because nobody would alter flat easy to manage cropland unless there was a really good reason as the land in question was already draining south towards the swamp. Please comment further...
ReplyDeleteThe use of the east side pits & ponds ended about 1970. The Stroh Drain was excavated in September 1983 and was located further south than the 2019 "cleanup". I agree that the Stroh farm field next to the property line naturally drained southwards as well as somewhat easterly.
ReplyDeleteThe Stroh Drain is brutally damning evidence!
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