MORE NEWS ON THURSDAY NIGHT'S TAG MEETING

There are a few other Agenda Items from Thursday's TAG meeting however prior to them I am going to add one more, in my opinion, bizarre criticism that Dustin Martin made regarding Sebastian's presentation dealing with East Side Concerns (i.e. Stroh property). I found it so bizarre and weird that it almost rated up there with Ramin Ansari's comments about bringing a pail of water onto the site and emptying it in order to watch the direction that the water flowed. Obviously on asphalt or cement a single pail would pond on the surface and tend to flow downslope. However on bare soil or ground a single pail of water would simply soak immediately into the ground unless it was frozen solid. ..................................................................................................... Dustin appeared to be all out of sorts regarding Sebastian's estimate of 40,000 to 50,000 gallons of wastewaters per day being pumped to the east side pits from 1944 until 1970. He seemed to feel that somehow this volume was being overemphasized. Actually I've seen and quoted higher volumes per day than those quoted by Sebastian. Regardless Dustin somehow felt it important to trivialize or minimize the volumes of wastewaters by suggesting that they could fit in a fairly small pipe perhaps 6 inches square or perhaps 6 inches in diameter. Like so what? Lanxess and their consultants don't deny large daily volumes of toxic waste waters being pumped into east side open ponds which overflowed and then gravity flowed southwards whether solely into GP-1 then into GP-2 or also more likely also following decreasing ground surface elevations and crossing onto the Stroh property right at the now existing Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm (SDDB). Hence once again this "criticism" is out of place. Sebastian stepped up to right a glaring wrong by his fellow TAG members and Dustin relied upon Sebastian's not being a hydrogeologist in order to attempt to discredit his whole presentation. ...................................................................................................................... Jaimie Petznik (Lanxess) made a presentation about MISA (Municipal Industrial Strategy for Abatement)and it's intended objective of reducing discharge to surface waters from industrial operations. Thirty minutes of talk could have and should have been done in ten. Essentially the MISA program has been replaced by monitoring of these surface water discharges by a different program. Likely that "program" is simply the Environmental Compliance Agreement (ECA) although I may have nodded off during the extended and dragged out discussion. .......................................................................................................... Linda Dickson discussed the Lanxess October Progress Report and how pumping wells W9 and PW5 continue not to be up and running properly. The excuses are innumerable and ongoing. ....................................................................................................... There was also further discussion of the 2020 Canagagigue Creek Sediment and Soil Investigation as well as the Review Comments of this report by the Ministry of Environment as well as Review Comments by the MECP regarding the Supplemental East Side Off-Site Groundwater Investigation. Some appropriate criticisms and suggested actions by the MECP are most likely to eventually get dropped or forgotten, especially by citizens, whether on or off the TAG committee. Bringing one report at a time and dealing with it once and for all in a decisive fashion simply is never going to happen as the guilty parties all prefer using extensive time delays to beat volunteers into eventual submission or perhaps even into a daze. ....................................................................................................................... The TAG Chair got what she wanted, namely more delay. Six plus years and counting since I "discovered" the Stroh Drain. Since then not one single groundwater reading on the south-west side of the Stroh property (beside Lanxess) and certainly not so much as a single soil sample. The Horse Manure and Bullshit by Lanxess and fellow travellors however is in great form and volume.