BESIDES METHANE WHAT ELSE DOES THE BOLENDER PARK LANDFILL CONTAIN?

"There are no official records of the type of waste received at the site.". Well that's just dandy! Or maybe it is actually just dandy for Woolwich township officials attempting to avoid liability. The quote comes from an August 1983 Report done on behalf of Woolwich Township by Conestoga Rovers in regards to the Bolender Park Landfill. The Report goes on to say that two people verbally have stated that only municipal (ie. household) wastes went into the Landfill. The one is a former Town Councillor who is most unlikely to have stood and watched day after day as trucks dumped at this Landfill. The other problem is which Councillor? Could it have been Art Gorman P.Eng., also of Uniroyal Chemical employ?

Then there is the small matter of the April 16, 1962 Sanitation Committee Report to Elmira Council. It was authored by the Chair of the Sanitation Committee. You guessed it, one Art Gorman. "The acceptance of industrial wastes in the Sanitary Landfill area will be subject to approval of the Sanitation Committee". Isn't that cute. Almost gives a patina of legitimacy to the plan.

We must also not forget that Elmira owed Uniroyal Chemical bigtime for decades of past waste disposal at the south-west corner of the Uniroyal site. That area is now called M2 and it contained everything from household ashes and food wastes to Dioxins, DDT and DNAPLS such as chlorobenzene wastes courtesy of course of Uniroyal. Also included according to the 1991 CH2MHILL Report were foundry wastes as well as tars from Uniroyal Chemical. This was between 1936 and 1962 when this landfill was closed by order of the Waterloo County Officer of Health.

The Bolender Park Landfill was designed to replace the closing of M2 and it was needed urgently. Lets see if foundry wastes, presumably Linkbelt (Procast), and Uniroyal's wastes were going into this municipal landfill (M2) then why wouldn't Borg Textiles, Great West Felt Co. plus other textile and manufacturing companies including Read Bros. (Nutrite) as well? Also let us not forget the emergence in 1962 of Varnicolor Chemical. The owner Mr. Argenton had a penchant for toxic waste disposal whether legal or illegal. It's very hard to believe that he did not avail himself as well of the Bolender Landfill as long as he could.

Then there are old reports and records such as the 1985 "History of Uniroyal Wastes", the 1991 Environmental Audit written by Conestoga Rovers as well as again the CH2MHILL 1991 report identifying Uniroyal as having deposited industrial wastes in the Bolender landfill. It seems very odd to me that in their 1983 Report to Woolwich Township that Conestoga Rovers would suggest that industrial wastes had not gone into the Bolender Landfill. Granted at the time they weren't Uniroyal Chemical's primary consultants but obviously Uniroyal saw the right stuff in CRA and took them on shortly afterwards.

The Bolender Park Landfill was also identified in the February 1991 CH2MHILL report as follows: "The Bolander Park Landfill is also a prime candidate for the generation of NDMA.". Kind of gives you a warm glow knowing how here in Woolwich, one hands washes the other. The town took care of Uniroyal and Uniroyal took care of the town.