LAST NIGHT'S TAG MEETING - MORE DELAYS & MORE IGNORING THE OBVIOUS

Well. There were two positives that I got from the meeting. Their names were Linda Dickson and Katerina Richter. There were also two negatives and their names were Tiffany Svensson and Dustin Martin. None of these impressions/opinions are written in stone. Sometimes good people make errors in judgement and sometimes bad people do the right thing for whatever reason. Firstly I am so very tired of the most important Agenda items being last! Whether UPAC, CPAC or RAC/TAG, last night was no exception. A non naive person might get the impression that this was being done intentionally in order to have volunteer members tired and ready to pack it in prior to the most important item. ....................................................................................................... I have this morning talked to two CPAC members who attended virtually last evening as well as another who did not attend last night but has been a regular attendee during live and in person RAC and TAG meetings. I also talked briefly last night after the meeting to Dr. Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach who presented "East Side Concerns Discussion" under Agenda Item 5.1 . There are some commonalities in the comments. Firstly the two positives, Linda and Katerina, clearly have open, objective minds. They listened carefully and know that the south part of the Stroh property has been intentionally avoided. Secondly Dustin Martin seemed compelled to undermine and criticize Sebastian's presentation. What angered me was his lack of balance which was excruciatingly observed at the end of his comments when he was trying to throw Sebastian a bone. He initially nitpicked about the three locations of GP-1, the Hydrograph Table and the subsurface cross-section of the Municipal aquifer which Sebastian likely misinterpreted as deep municipal groundwater apparently flowing eastwards. Neither of the last two points are frankly even remotely relevant to Sebastian's basic premise that the southern part of the Stroh property near Lanxess has NOT been properly investigated. Regarding the location of GP-1, there are three professional maps showing three different locations of GP-1 and I was appalled that Dustin felt it necessary to support GHD's (Lanxess's consultants) self-serving opinion of GP-1's location with absolutely zero evidence to back it up. That to me, shows evidence of bias. Regarding the "bone" that Dustin threw Sebastian's way Dustin vaguely and with mediocre word choice actually 100% supported Sebastian's basic premise that there has been zero investigation of the south one third of the Stroh property. Dustin did this with the following words " GHD have failed to fully and properly delineate the Stroh property." ....................................................................................................................... So how do those words support Sebastian's position? Well it would have been very helpful if Dustin had been more specific as to what "delineation" he was talking about. I believe and understand that Dustin meant that GHD had failed to fully and properly delineate ...the extent of contamination...on the Stroh property. In other words exactly as Sebastian has been saying...Lanxess, GHD and the MECP have utterly failed to do a proper investigation of the Stroh property. Thank you Dustin Martin even though you prefaced it with nitpicking irrelevant criticisms and you failed to make your final message in plain, clear English. ............................................................................................................ Why the shot in the fourth sentence, first paragraph above regarding Tiffany Svensson? The impression that both I amd other observers to the meeting had was that Tiffany was supporting Dustin's criticisms of Sebastian's presentation. It is becoming clearer that she is a "company man". That is unfortunate.