Why am I calling them shameless? I attended the June 19/25 TRAC meeting. I sat in the front row of the gallery to ensure that I could both hear speakers as well as see any maps or Figures put up on the overhead screen. Just now I have sat watching the first hour and twenty minutes or so video of that TRAC meeting as it is available on the Woolwich Township website. The overheads are much clearer and I am almost speechless.
One particular map was put up on the overhead screen that was very relevant. Unfortunately it was difficult to read in particular the tiny little yellow rectangles representing POTENTIAL OFF-SITE CHLOROBENZENE SOURCES. It was at the 50:38 (fifty minute 38 seconds) mark of the TRAC video. Holy crap but Lanxess can't get their story straight! That map of Elmira has four or five potential off-site source areas for chlorobenzene. They appear to be close to or within the blocks of Industrial Dr., Union St, Howard Ave. and First St. It appears as if both Borg and Varnicolor are coloured yellow as well as others .
Keep in mind that I've stated for at least the last fifteen years that there are other sources of chlorobenzene than just Uniroyal Chemical. Perhaps eight years ago Dr. Neil Thompson of U. of Waterloo wrote a Conceptual Site Model (CSM) in which he agreed that others had leaked chlorobenzene into the groundwater besides Uniroyal. Then last summer/fall I asked Allan Deal (GHD) publicly if he agreed or not. He was presenting a new, updated CSM. and he emphatically denied any second source of chlorobenzene to Elmira's groundwater.
Keep in mind that I am not conflating a second source with what Jesse Wright of Arcadis (working for Lanxess ) referred to as secondary sources. These are not direct infusions of contaminants from an industrial source at the surface but are back diffusion (leakage) from the aquitards (clay & silt) which occurs as the aquifers (sand & gravel) concentrations of chlorobenzene slowly decreases over time which induces the chlorobenzene in the adjacent aquitards to then release their chlorobenzene back into the aquifers.
I used to think of councillor Bauman as Mr. Flip Flop. This is a breath taking flip flop by Lanxess.
I blame politicians like Flip-Flop Mark Bauman for teaching the bureaucrats and "officials" the tricks of deception and how to create a parallel construction of the truth by fraudulent so-called consensus. Bauman was an expert at creating a Fake+FALSE Consensus by extreme manipulation of facts and power! Now we are stuck with a bunch of overpaid and underworked buracraps and so called "officials" that totally suck at managing real problems AND are much harder to get off our back!
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