WILL THE SEDIMENT TESTING FURTHER EMBARASS THE PARTNERS IN POLLUTION?

Today's Elmira Independependent carrys this story titled "Sediment testing underway by CPAC". Unlike the Ontario M.O.E. who like to sit on their lab results for months and even years when they are embarassing, these results should be available much sooner. As indicated by CPAC member Sebastian, these samples are taken in an area that has never been tested . That is to the everlasting shame of our M.O.E. who are supposed to be responible for the environment as well as responsible to both human and wildlife receptors. There is a swimming pond nearby and the M.O.E.'s failure to test the drain/creek which flows by it is horrific. Children have used this pond for decades while both Chemntura and the M.O.E. have pretended that the Chemtura site is contained. The downstream results of DDT and Dioxins over the last three summers say otherwise.

The M.O.E. will stickhandle and mention some berm testing around the pond which indeed had positive results for DDT & Dioxins. They failed to test sediments in the bottom of the pond and they categorically obfuscated and misled CPAC two summers ago when they claimed there was no pathway from Chemtura over to the pond. My discovery of the Drain last May, as indicated in today's Independent article, devastated the M.O.E.'s remaining shreds of credibility.