I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP ON COUNCILLORS MERLIHAN, HAHN AND L.SHANTZ

I know, I know. Burned a thousand times over the last twenty-five years and still cautiously optimistic. Truth be told I've been a bigger sucker for female liars than males. Why is that? That said Mark Bauman continues to stickhandle around facts and the truth with incredible skill and finesse. Unlike former Mayor Cowan whom it took very little time to understand; Mark continues to throw bones to those who don't trust him. For example his fairly insistent belief that the Stroh farmlands on the east side of Chemtura are drained by tile; I felt at first was to undermine the possibilty that the steel pipe discharging into the top (north) end of the Stroh Drain came from a groundwater collection trench draining Chemtura's shallow east side groundwater. As of the public CPAC Working Session this past Monday I have a whole new understanding of the implications of the possibilty that there is a tile drain system, right beside Chemtura's east side toxic waste pits, on the Stroh property.

These implications were enunciated by professional hydrogeologist Peter Gray of MTE Consultants. And Mark did not seem discomfited by Peter's hydrogeologic interpretation. Peter has already indicated in writing his belief that groundwater flows radially from the topographical high that is most prominent by the former IR-2, RPE-1, 2 & 3 on Chemtura's northeast corner. Radially as in west, east, south and possibly even a little north. What Peter advised us on Monday was that any drainage of subsurface water (ie. groundwater) on the east side of the Chemtura/Stroh property line simply lowered the groundwater levels there hence increasing the "head" or water pressure via gravity from Chemtura's property towards Stroh's. Therefore while this "head" already existed, drainage tile as Mark suspects exists simply exacerbates this flow of contaminated groundwater eastwards from the Chemtura site. Holy crap Batman!

Therefore if drainage tile exist on the Stroh property it has increased contaminated groundwater flow eastwards. If it doesn't exist then the steel pipe discharging into the north end of the Stroh Drain is most likely coming from the Chemtura property possibly via a surrepticious groundwater collection system. Chemtura are buggered BOTH ways!

One last huge revelation/confirmation from Monday's meeting. Chemtura senior management might want to put their affairs in order. They are still reading this Blog on a regular basis and they won't like this. As I suspected as an amateur hydrogeologist based upon twenty-five years of reading and studying hydrogeological reports from dozens of contaminated sites; the Stroh Drain is not only draining overland flow (surface water) and groundwater via the steel pipe (Stroh's and or Chemtura's) but it also will have a capture zone of nearby groundwater. Nearby groundwater such as the former Chemtura wetland approximately twenty feet west of the Drain.

This Councillors Merlihan, Hahn and L.Shantz is where you must come in. Both Chemtura and the Ontario M.O.E. are desperate to escape from revelations of their gross negligence in permitting discharges and drainage off Chemtura's site, into the Stroh Drain and then downstream via the Canagagigue Creek into the Grand River. Chemtura and the M.O.E. will say and do anything to avoid many millions of dollars in cleanup costs and or a totally appropriate inquiry into the M.O.E.'s negligence.