Mere tokenism. And of course Susan Bryant had to put her two uninformed cents in by suggesting "...that the work of identifying the contamination on this site (Stroh) remains unfinished until the ditch is tested." Great so that's exactly and all that Lanxess did. They did not take either groundwater samples throughout the Stroh farm nor did they take a serious number of soil or sediment samples. Of the two sediment samples taken in a ditch a quarter of a mile long one of them had a concentration of 2,3,7,8 TCDD (dioxin) thirty times higher than the federal criteria of .85 pg/g. The Stroh property is large. A couple of groundwater samples, a few shallow soil samples with several chemical criteria exceedances within 30 feet of the site boundary with Uniroyal/Lanxess and a couple of sediment samples. I repeat mere tokenism.
And Susan Bryant as she has done for three decades gave it her and the long defunct APTE's blessing. This folks is the very definition of a coopted citizen pretending to speak for the public while defending the indefensible. The Record article indicates that I made a presentation to the planning and works committee in June. I'm not sure if Ms. Gerber is referring to the Woolwich or the Regional works committee. Regardless the fix has been in for a very long time which is how and why mayor Sandy Shantz got rid of me and the Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC) back in September 2015. She knew that honest and informed citizens would never let the Min. of Environment, Lanxess and the Township get away with this abomination. The title of the Record article is "Watchdogs say not enough contaminant testing near new urban zone in east Elmira" dated July 4, 2020.
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