HOT UPDATE ON NEXT TAG MEETING

Well if I wasn't thrilled with the TAG meeting being skipped in October what do you figure I think of it now being postponed till December 7, 2017? Furthermore the pathetic quarterly only RAC meetings have also been postponed from December until the new year. Both of those are ridiculous. We have a new Chair of TAG since last January. Most of the TAG members are new albeit fairly to very keen but the learning curve is immense. Sebastian and two others if and when they (the two others) get around to attending TAG meetings are experienced and the large time gaps are a little less damaging to their learning curves. In our busy lives with families and jobs/careers it is difficult to keep up to date with new events and reports coming out from the partners in pollution much less remember everything that's gone on over the last couple of years or more.

Soil sampling took place on the Stroh farm in September, very close to the Chemtura/lanxess property line. Whether or not the results are totally completed this month, field observations such as odours, soil discolouration, stressed vegetation etc. all could have been passed on to TAG last month much less this month. Also soil types and or any problems with the soil sampling could be clarified prior to the formal report. The sediments in the Canagagigue Creek were also sampled this fall. Even more so TAG could get a heads up as to how that sampling proceeded. Were water levels high or low? Where exactly were both sediment and floodplain soil samples taken as there was supposed to be some flexibility based upon field examination and determination.

Above and beyond the recent sampling events we also have ongoing news regarding the Conceptual Site Model (Dr. Neil Thompson) and the recent mini expansion of the off-site pump and treat system. News regarding the other sources of both Chlorobenzene and NDMA in the Elmira Aquifers is decades overdue. When or if further testing of In Situ Chemical Oxidation (ISCO) will occur in the off-site Aquifers is also front and centre (or should be). There is a ton of news and data that should be shared with the community yesterday not next month. How many of our Woolwich Councillors have a clue as to the pressing issues? The answer is zero.