DR. JACKSON GAVE HOPE FOR FIFTEEN MONTHS

He called a spade a spade. He called out Chemtura/Lanxess and the MOE for their gross failures. He personally got into it with big shots who showed up from the MOE with their oil to be spread over troubled waters. He did not suffer fools gladly and he was a breathe of fresh air. Oh how I laughed at Sandy and Mark for their goof in hiring Dr. Jackson because he made CPAC look like not only the professionals that they are and were but more importantly made CPAC look like the calmest most mellow professionals which they are and were.

Dr. Richard Jackson (Dick) hammered Chemtura/CRA/GHD and the MOE for their failure to examine sediment transport in the Canagagigue Creek. He hammered them for their failures to discover basal gravel units at the bottom of Elmira aquifers which were the preferential route of groundwater and contaminant flow. He hammered them over their incomplete testing of the ISCO (In Situ Chemical Oxidation) technology.He demanded and received a proper and serious Conceptual Site Model (CSM) of Uniroyal Chemical and the Elmira Aquifers which both demonstrated and explained the subsurface flow of groundwater throughout the area. He took the measure of all parties and stakeholders involved in the alleged cleanup of the Elmira Aquifers and he found them wanting. All of them.

Unfortunately this included TAG. RAC I believe was also more than obviously lacking. With TAG the final issue was their reluctance to go to the media to increase pressure on the parties in charge. In TAG's defense I will say that at that point they only had a year on the job so to speak. Yes they admired Dr. Jackson but going to the media seemed to most of their backgrounds to be well, radical. It was out of their comfort zone. Dr. Jackson knew the route forward to proper cleanup was blocked by the vested interests namely Chemtura/GHD and the MOE. He knew they needed a very hard shove from the public and that would only occur if the public were clearly led by some authorized group like TAG. When it was not to be, he decided that he was not interested in leading a losing proposition that didn't have to be so.