Wednesday, February 24, 2021
MORE PROBLEMS/ISSUES WITH THE TAG NOVEMBER 26/21 MINUTES
Alleged aerial photographs supposedly show the outlines of GP-1. Also we are advised by Dustin Martin (TAG) that GHD may have done what he Dustin did namely"...overlay aerial photographs on themselves." Fine, talk is cheap. 1) Show us (public & CPAC) these aerial photographs you are referencing 2) Show us the supposed "common landmarks" you Dustin mentioned and 3) Explain how the hell any of that remotely confirms the current location of GP-1 being the original location. As the written evidence produced by the MOE and GRCA on a 1983 map shows otherwise, at the very least the guilty parties need to address this including ANSWERING QUESTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC about how and when this mix-up occurred.
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There is a huge issue of common sense and of transparency that is unresolved. Hell I won't even for the moment go to the possibility of fraud regarding soil sampling in the current GP-1 location. Conestoga Rovers were accused decades ago by a consultant for the Region of Waterloo of taking soil samples looking for DNAPLS in locations where they were unlikely to be in the first place. What I will suggest is that GHD/Lanxess are willing to manufacture bizarre arguments in order to avoid soil sampling in the most likely locations where Uniroyal Chemical's toxic wastewaters flowed over a period of decades i.e the southern part of the Stroh farm/property. Hell they've already admitted that Uniroyal liquid wastes flowed eastwards across the northern and central part of the Stroh farm. Granted they did sucessfully manage the sampling (5.9 inches deep) in order to minimize the extent of off-site contamination and alleged "cleanup".
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The bizarre argument mentioned above is that Lanxess/GHD/MECP refuse to sample soils exactly where I and other intelligent people suspect the wastewaters flowed namely into the low lying area to the immediate east of the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm (SDDB) that has an elevation of 345-345.5 metres above sea level. Instead they want to sample up gradient, still on the Lanxess property near the "Gap" area. Don't forget that the name "Gap" is to indicate where to date Chemtura/Lanxess have avoided proper sampling during sampling events both on the Lanxess property and on the Stroh property. It has been hilarious how they have contorted themselves to avoid sampling where it was requested. These contortions only lend credence to citizens suspicions but are not definitive. Afterall extremely limited up gradient (to the current GP-1) soil sampling has not indicated particularly high concentrations of DDT and dioxins. Therefore why would the guilty parties try to refuse soil sampling closer to the SDDB based on up gradient sampling? Perhaps what may have been proven is that flowing liquid wastes do not contaminate underlying soils nearly as much as ponded liquid wastes slowly settling and draining downwards into the soils.
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