1) If they successfully can deny on-site DNAPLS then migrating (gravity flowing) off-site DNAPLS can also be ignored. This includes from Uniroyal's south-west corner (M2) over to the Nutrite site as well as over to beside the Howard St. Water Tower at OW57-32. Finally according to the map from last month's TRAC meeting the major source of chlorobenzene to the Elmira Aquifers is the east side pits and ponds which we know flowed onto the Stroh property. Talk about a "Non Disclosed Work Around". Woolwich and Regional officials aren't just planning on burying DDT and dioxins on the Stroh and Martin farms but likely DNAPLS as well. These decisions will haunt both our downstream Mennonite neighbours as well as the drinking water treatment required throughout Waterloo Region (IUS-Integrated Urban System) for many more decades and even speed up what should have been the unnecessary process and cost of building a Lake Erie Pipeline to Waterloo Region.
2) Focus has been upon how much NDMA has been removed (not enough) from the Elmira Aquifers since 1998 when we should be looking at chlorobenzene. Yes NDMA has a very low and difficult to achieve drinking water standard of .009 parts per billion. Chlorobenzene however has a drinking water standard of EIGHTY parts per billion and they aren't even close especially in the Municipal Lower Aquifer.
3) Thirty-six years have been wasted (1989-2025) by pretending that DNAPLS don't exist in Elmira whereas every other negligent chemical companies who handled chlorinated solvents have them in spades and know they need to be addressed. This was the main message of Drs. Cherry and Parker in the January 2007 meeting at the University of Waterloo. Funny how sad and despondent Pat, Susan B. and Wilf were when they heard that compared to my attitude of finally let's go after them! It never happened.
The history of the Elmira "cleanup" is the history of Non Disclosed Work Arounds. Every significant decision has been made in private backroom deals with the public excluded. These "Work Arounds" have neither followed environmental law nor any kind of environmental policy such as the Precautionary Principle. UPAC, CPAC, RAC/TAG and now TRAC are merely window dressing to give the appearance of public consultation. Only pre-approved parties plus a few co-opted citizens have been granted full access to all reports, discussions, technical meetings and real decision making.
They did not waste the time! "They" (all the NEGLIGENT) created a "False Consensus" based on "Projection Bias" ! The work-arounds which occurred on the Stroh Farm (with the facts/evidence left behind) is the best evidence of "their" knowledge of their own NEGLIGENCE and guilt is the nexis tying together all the various people and parties in the Grand Coverup and attempted burial of the truth. It's NOT going to work! Facts are STUBBORN Things!
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