AND THEN THERE IS WOOLWICH'S RIDICULOUS MAP

To see which map I'm referring to above in the title simply go to yesterday's post and click on the first link. Yes that's the map I'm referring to. The one with the long narrow red rectangle, the funny blue curved line and then the "approximate" black line showing the location and size of the Bolender Park landfill. What a joke!

Two of those lines namely the red and blue ones are the recent creation of Woolwich Township. The black one is most likely the old creation of Conestoga Rovers (scratch my back & I'll scratch yours) & Associates. While the Township are alluding to a 1962 letter written by the Sanitation Committee, that committee did not include any such diagram with their letter. If they did then Woolwich failed to pass it along with the rest of the file. Maybe Woolwich would like to put their recent map creation into the original file. Heck they could even staple it onto the 1962 Sanitation Committee letter. Add a little authenticity so to speak.

The 1962 Sanitation Committee letter referred to an area 200 feet by 1200 feet. They were vague however as to exactly where that started and stopped. The Township's map has the 1200 feet (red line) ending just past the house that was built in 1919 and is still there. That seems a little unlikely that the Sanitation Committee planned to lift the house up and put garbage underneath it. However what is less ridiculous is that the Bolender Landfill did run into the area where a few houses were built in the 70s or 80s on High St.. That is not good news.

The blue line is totally fictitious and frankly illogical just like the others. The Sanitation Committee referred to an approximate 400 foot distance to the nearest house. Again they provided no map. It would also help if the Township's map included a Legend with a Scale ie. 1" = 100' sort of thing. It does not, hence it's hard to check their accuracy for their fictitious lines. Regardless why would the Sanitation Committee, headed by a Uniroyal manager, call for a 1200 foot long dump and then allegedly cut it nearly in half? Nonsense!

Even the black line is highly speculative. All the land now part of the park to the south was available and empty back in 1962. That combined with two longtime local residents telling me that there is indeed garbage beneath the park behind their George St. homes makes the "approximate" size and shape of the landfill unlikely. These three highly speculative and imaginative lines also contradict each other. Look carefully again at that map. Which line, the red, blue or black is the accurate one? I suggest the answer is none of them.