JULY 2003 CPAC REQUEST FOR ACTION - ANOTHER REVIEW

Yesterday I posted here about the benefits and need for constant review when one is dealing with an issue (Elmira Water Crisis) that is over thirty years old. That so much knowledge and hard work has been forgotten, lost, and intentionally ignored is shameful and unnecessary. The full title of this report is "CPAC Request for Action Response to SSRA Human Health Assessment, Crompton July 2003". There is also a three paragraph Introduction which explains the rationale and the stimulus for CPAC's efforts. I might add that it was CPAC's Soil & Water sub-committee consisting of myself, Henry, Susan and Fred who produced this report which was accepted by the rest of the CPAC membership and then formally given to Crompton, CRA, and the Ontario Ministry of Environment (MOE). As indicated in the title the SSRA or Site Specific Risk Assessment from Crompton/CRA was a significant stimulus as was also the alleged CLRP or Comprehensive Long Range Plan for the site. In reality the CLERP was merely one more delaying and energy wasting tactic by the company and supporters (i.e. MOE). ................................................................................................................. The report from CPAC consisted of eight proposed actions most of which were for excavation of highly contaminated and well known hot spots on the Uniroyal/Crompton property. Yours truly did most of the reading and digging through historical reports which to this day are still being ignored and possibly kept hidden from current TAG members. We are still waiting to see how late and how few of the requested reports get into the TAG members hands prior to the November 26, 2020 virtual public TAG meeting. It is one of those cases in which I hope to be wrong although I will say that time is rapidly running out for meaningful time for TAG members to read any of the reports. ..................................................................................................... Five of the eight proposed action areas have not been done despite proposed flexible Timelines such as 2003-2005, 2006-2007, 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. Three others were done only partially such as the supposed downstream fencing off and revegetating a buffer strip along the Canagagigue Creek. In fact personal observation by myself a few years after it was allegedly done showed that cattle were not fenced off from the creek and still were routinely crossing through it to and from their barns. Item 5. regarding excavating the entire dry channel and island was probably the best done of the lot. Item 2. excavating of GP-1 and GP-2 was partially done although it wins the award for deception. GP-2 was merely capped with soil and in hindsight we learned that GP-1 very likely was NOT the original location of Gravel Pit 1 (GP-1) and in fact may very well have been used as a substitute for the real GP-1. Of course all the guilty parties including the MOE have refused to even look at the evidence or give any rationale or explanation to the public for the huge discrepancy. This is shades of Tiffany Svensson (TAG Chair) this past summer refusing to give me any logical, rationale, fact or evidence based reasons for her and TAG flatly dismissing my (and numerous recognized experts) February 2020 written Delegation to TAG which consisted of maps, text and data mostly from those same recognized experts. ................................................................................................................. The data and evidence exists for the truth about the failures of the Elmira cleanup. What hasn't existed to date is an honest, real and ongoing public consultation process. The few times when various public advisory committees have been making progress they've either been shut down, ignored or undermined with private, guilty party deal making.