SO WILL OUR AUTHORITIES EVENTUALLY ADMIT TO LYING ABOUT THE STROH FARM THE WAY THEY HAVE RECENTLY DONE SO REGARDING DNAPLS & CHLOROBENZENE?

 

That is anybody's guess. Sure the chief liars have either retired or stepped back at Uniroyal/Crompton/Chemtura and especially at the MECP.  Representing Lanxess and GHD there are two with a history namely Lou Almeida and Allan Deal. Mr. Deal's history is much worse than Lou's although Lou does seem to be attempting to catch up with his Stroh farm nonsense. 

I am confident that councillor and TRAC Chair Nathan Cadeau along with Tiffany Svensson and mayor Sandy Shantz will soon realize that all their manipulation, deception and just plain blatant  and willful blindness and deafness on the subject will not fly.  Unfortunately for them I am a team player and made certain over a decade ago that a number of local citizens were fully aware of the situation on the Stroh farm.. That situation also applies to the Martin farm immediately south of the Stroh farm with the migration of contamination being both directly from Uniroyal (southern property line) as well as indirectly through the Stroh property and the SDDB (Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm). 

What limited evidence there is due to Chemtura/Lanxess's refusals to do even a half hearted investigation with serious soil, ground and surface water sampling (in the ditch) supports the likelihood of serious contamination including dioxins and DDT migrating off-site. The Mickey Mouse investigation along the property line between Lanxess and the Stroh farm speaks volumes. Soil sampling was only fifteen to twenty metres onto the Stroh farm and the soil sampling extended to a whopping 15 centimetres or 5.9 inches in depth. WHAT A JOKE !  Nevertheless the contamination was serious enough all these decades later to require removal. 

One of the key pieces of evidence is the topographical maps showing that the lowest ground elevation is on the Stroh farm to the immediate east of Lanxess's south-east corner. In other words all the admitted gravity flowing toxic liquid wastes from Uniroyal's overflowing east side pits had to go somewhere and most of that somewhere was not into on-site GP-1 & 2 . It was onto the Stroh property as well as the adjoining Martin  property. Lanxess have intentionally been muddying the waters to the best of their abilities for years on this matter. 

Fess up Lanxess! And then clean up or else the Creek will never be safe or healthy.