"CLERICAL ERRORS" OR CORRUPTION?

Two maps from two different reports. The first map is dated 1983 and was published in a Ministry of Environment report in 1985 titled "A History Of Uniroyal Waste Management". The second report regarding the Elmira aquifer system etc. was produced by CH2M HILL on behalf of the Region of Waterloo in 1991. That report actually stated that their map was "From Jackman et. al. 1985". Jackman was Wayne Jackman one of the three authors of the first report. The small and embarassing problem is that there are discrepancies between the two maps. The second map (From Jackman et.al. 1985") appears to be almost exact with the same waste management pits and names as well as the same topographical (i.e. ground surface) contour lines measured in feet above sea level versus the more common nowadays metres above sea level (masl). ................................................................................................... The discrepancies are in relation to the location of GP-1 which stands for GRAVEL PIT 1. It does not stand for Retention Pond West (eg. RPW-5) nor does it stand for Retention Pit East (eg. RPE-4). Finally it also does not stand for Tar Pit West (eg. TPW-2) nor for Tar Pit East (eg. TPE-1). One TAG member recently has suggested that the gravel pits (GP-1 & GP-2) were excavated for the purposes of being used as liquid waste retention pits. Rubbish! The pits and ponds excavated for those purposes were so explicitly named. If I or any other semi-intelligent person were to guess, we would suspect that Gravel Pit 1 & 2 were excavated for...wait for it... extraction of the gravel within them! After gravel extraction the areas were low lying enough that some percentage of the overflowing east side waste pits (RPE 1-5) ended up settling in them. .......................................................................................................... There are problems however. Ground surface contour lines (i.e. topographical lines) clearly show a flowpath from the east side pits crossing into the former (i.e. before construction of the Stroh Drain) swampy area north of the ridge of high ground running North-West to South-East. From that former swampy area the flowing wastewaters would have continued eastwards onto the Stroh property. The true location of GP-1 does not change the topography nor where the toxic wastewaters ended up. What the true location may do however is undermine the blatant horse manure and lies of the polluter and his client driven consultants. They have long pretended that with minor assistance from ploughed furrows (& a swale) that all wastewaters ended up staying on Uniroyal/Lanxess's property rather than crossing over to the southern part of the Stroh property. This is a self-serving story possibly saving the company millions of dollars in cleanup costs especially as our municipal and regional governments have decided to bury the area under the future Elmira By-Pass running south to north up the east side of Elmira. ...................................................................................................... The same TAG member suggests that the discrepancy in locations of GP-1 on the maps are "clerical errors". Both maps however do not show GP-1 on the south-west side of the high ridge of land. The first shows it mostly on the north-east side of the ridge and the second map shows it partly on top of the ridge and slightly on the south-west downslope of the ridge. This is a non commercial, small scale gravel pit excavated from close to a very wet swampy area which just happens to encompass both sides of the high elevation ridge (a kame/esker etc.). Where would you excavate the gravel: from where it's above the water table or from where it's below? That's a no brainer. ....................................................................................................... "Clerical errors" or local government backed corruption? Seems obvious to me.