Saturday, December 5, 2020

HONEST EXPLANATIONS REQUIRED - THEY KNEW FOURTY YEARS AGO THAT THEY HAD CONTAMINATED THE STROH FARM & THE MUNICIPAL WELLS

I've just spent a couple of hours looking over the history of monitoring wells on the east side of RPE-4 and RPE-5. These wells therefore are located between the two largest "consolidation pits" RPE-4 and RPE-5 and the Stroh property line. In fact many of these wells are located within either inches or mere feet from the Stroh property. Of interest is the sheer number of wells located next to these two pits versus the very few further north beside RPE-1, 2, 3 (about 3) not to mention further south (perhaps 4). There have of course been a few more added in the last couple of years as Lanxess go through a pretend investigation of the Stroh farm. Back in the early 1980s there were about fourteen wells drilled beside RPE-4 and 5. Clearly they not only knew that their liquid wastes had flowed onto the Stroh farm but they knew that the two southern pits were by far the worst. ........................................................................................................ These fourteen wells were numbered from OW 25 to OW 39. Keep in mind that some of these wells had multiple screen depths such as OW 32 which was screened at three, six and eight metres depth. Four of them were drilled and screened into the Upper Aquifer namely OW 28-2, OW 32-3, OW 34-5 and OW 38-5. Oddly? all the rest were drilled into the Upper Aquitard. That in itself requires an explanation. ...................................................................................................... What also requires explaining is the number of wells which were shut down or abandoned early on. How odd that most of these wells were installed between 1981 and 1984 and yet clearly many were torn up and destroyed around 1987 as extensive cleanup and remediation was ongoing including excavation of nearby BAE-1 and RB-1 and RB-2 all prior to the supposed discovery of NDMA in the south wellfield in the fall of 1989. There are barely four of these wells still in operating order and only a couple of them are actually screened in the Upper Aquifer today. ....................................................................................................... The more I study and read the more obvious it becomes that all important environmental decisions have been decided behind closed doors while public consultation has all been a play managed by corrupt, incompetent and biased politicians looking to keep the public from understanding how badly they have been deceived and abused for many decades.

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  1. the most 2-faced fork-tongued politician in Elmira was ? and his legacy lives on in ?

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    1. Oh Geez that is a tough question. Certainly Bill Strauss was hypocritical with his various contaminated sites in Elmira and Heidelberg. Pat Mclean was an awful, behind the scenes schemer and manipulator. Then what about Ken Seiling. He may have done more damage from a distance (regionaal chair) than up close. Lots of candidates. Sandy stinks, Murray Martin is just dumb,etc. There were a few good ones over the years but not many.

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  2. lol, i was thinking of Mr. Flipflop who knew everything and yet did nothing and he passed the torch to Sandy who knew nothing and did everything (we the people lost) We may as well elect a duck next time. (NOT afraid of the swamp)

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    1. Oh my, just because he's out of politics I skipped over Mark Bauman. Yes we at CPAC referred to him as Mr. Flip Flop. He said what his audience at the time wanted to hear then flip flopped with the next audience. You have also described him well.

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