ONGOING CRA & GHD LIES ON BEHALF OF THEIR WORLD CLASS POLLUTING CLIENTS

Upper Aquifer (UA) groundwater flow directions on the east side of the Lanxess property appear to be total nonsense and fabrications from both consulting companies. These companies on behalf of Uniroyal/Crompton/Chemtura and now Lanxess Canada have always claimed that the Upper Aquifer flows south-west and discharges into the Canagagigue Creek where it is located either in the middle of their property or where it runs somewhat parallel to their most southern border with the Martin farm. Never have they indicated that any part of their property discharges UA groundwater eastwards onto the Stroh property nor into the Canagagigue Creek further downstream where it is actually east of their (Lanxess) property. ....................................................................................................................... What evidence do we have? Documentation (maps) exist which clearly show that a large part of Lanxess's south-east corner was wetlands. These were wetlands often with standing water as both the maps (CRA April 2013 "GP1 and GP2 Remediation and Capping", Dwg. C-02 "Existing Conditions") and verbal public testimony from Jeff Merriman of Chemtura has stated. Mr. Merriman further stated that the wetlands have now been drained which of course TAG members and a few lucky members of the public found out during the April 2019 site tour. What Jeff and every other lying....oops...factually confused folks have "forgotten" to add is that it was the Stroh Drain (SDDB) installed in 1983 which drained the swamp as it was partially intended to do. The SDDB is approximately five to six feet deep which not only drains standing surface water south and east but also is the low point locally in the Upper Aquifer hence drawing UA groundwater both from the Stroh and Lanxess property towards itself. This "drain" conveniently also includes a significant Berm on its' east side. Hence I refer to it as the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm or SDDB. ............................................................................................................ So we have maps, verbal testimony and first hand eye witness accounts including my own. There is yet another interesting documented fact. I have estimated in the past that the SDDB on the Stroh property runs parallel to the Lanxess property in their south-east corner for approximately 125 to 150 metres. It then runs a few hundred more metres mostly southwards until it discharges into the Canagagigue Creek. In fact while the SDDB is both a surface and subsurface feature, in fact north of it, it is entirely subsurface. There is a subsurface pipe which discharges into the extreme north end of the SDDB approximately one metre below ground surface. Not only are there multiple eye witnesses to this pipe including TAG, CPAC members and members of the public but there are also multiple photographs of it. This pipe discharges groundwater year round into the SDDB. Whether or not it was installed ostensibly to lower the water table, similar to agricultural drainage tile, beneath Mr. Stroh's corn and soybean field to the north may be problematic as 98% of that field is located at elevations greater than 349 metres above sea level (masl). The Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm for example begins further south at the ground surface elevation of 346 masl where it undoubtedly has and continues to drain both surface and ground water. ................................................................................................................... What the pipe discharging into the SDDB is undoubtedly doing however is draining shallow groundwater from the northern two thirds of the Stroh farm property. It is thus lowering the water table on that part of the Stroh property. With the corn/soybean field on the high ground (349-360 masl) one seriously has to wonder if the major purpose of this tile or shallow drain system is to actually assist crop production. It is my opinion that it is not. Of course as Chemtura/Lanxess strictly control public comments and questions through Woolwich Township stewardship ( i.e. co-opted or worse) all the questions surrounding the Stroh property are not up for routine if even minimal discussion. Woolwich Township and Lanxess also control the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) through the Chair whom they pay for her efforts. Hence asking for public answers from either Lanxess or the MOE/MECP does not work well. ......................................................................................................................... So you amateur hydrogeologists, what does artifically lowering the shallow water table, whether called the Surficial Aquifer or the Upper Aquifer, along the Lanxess/Stroh property line actually accomplish? Well what it does is divert shallow contaminated groundwater from the Uniroyal/Lanxess site onto the Stroh property where it is piped southwards. Groundwater just like surface water flows downhill. If you lower the shallow groundwater elevation on the Stroh side of the property line you will draw both surface water discharge AND shallow groundwater flow from Uniroyal/Lanxess onto your property (i.e. Stroh). And that folks has never been said or shown on groundwater elevation contour maps distributed for public consumption in the last thirty years plus.