LAST NIGHT'S TAG MEETING: TOTALLY UNDERWHELMING

One hour and ten minutes. That mercifully is how short it was and that time length is being generous as the meeting actually started late at 6:35 pm. and ended at 7:40 pm. It goes both ways. The meeting was dull and uneventful with little or no hard questions, demands or statements of position by TAG members. Linda, Sebastian and Katerina participated whereas Susan Bryant didn't show up until 7:15 pm. and Dustin and David H. were silent throughout the meeting. What the bloody hell! There are huge issues ongoing and nobody really seemed terribly concerned, upset or happy about anything. I'm upset that the meeting was so uneventful especially after the last meeting being three months earlier. No sense of urgency, no sense of time dragging, no sense of anger over how slowly everything is proceeding. ..................................................................................................... For example pumping well W9 that should have been up and running five or six years ago, is now scheduled to be on-line by June 2021. This is a major off-site pumping well and was supposed to be part of the November 2012 promised TRIPLING of off-site pumping. DNAPLS were mumbled about with vague comments about they are no longer mobile other than perhaps NAPLS (LNAPL not DNAPL) on the west side of the site. Nobody present either knew about the long history of DNAPL coverup on-site or otherwise they were keeping their mouths shut. ......................................................................................................... The east side issues (i.e. Stroh property) were barely even mentioned. Tiffany promised some news by the end of March. Wow! Meanwhile is Sebastian still supposed to be in limbo forever with his September "Appeal to TAG members" about the issue? Oh and we are assurred that the Canagagigue Creek Risk Assessment will be completed by the end of 2021. So what? It is and always has been a croc with sketchy data, lousy sampling and make believe Contaminants of Concern, Conceptual Site Model and a grand total of TWO samples taken somewhere within the Stroh Drain. Of course no real soil sampling has been done near (east side) the Stroh Drain as Lanxess's/GHD's basic strategy is to ignore facts, science and informed and willing to debate local residents and stakeholders. That is unless those residents and longtime stakeholders have been vetted by pretend mayor Sandy Shantz as being "nice" people to her liking.