THE SYSTEM IS SO HORRIBLY PERVERTED (i.e. UNIROYAL/LANXESS & ELMIRA "CLEANUP")

I virtually attended, along with everybody else, the last TAG (Technical Advisory Group) meeting of November 26, 2020. I was extremely disappointed with the critique of Sebastian Seibel-Achembach's "Appeal" to TAG which he had provided prior to this somewhat public meeting. This critique was done verbally by Dustin Martin, hydrogeologist, likely I suspect at the request of Tiffany Svensson, TAG Chair. Well I actually received late last week a copy of the Minutes of that TAG meeting from THREE MONTHS AGO as well as a complete written copy of Mr. Martin's critique. I now have very belatedly a much better understanding of what Mr. Martin based his disagreements with Sebastian on as well as greater detail as to a number of agreements he had with Sebastian's "Appeal to TAG" regarding the East Side contamination of the Stroh property. .................................................................................................. Dustin Martin agreed that topographically, waste waters certainly could flow from Uniroyal Chemical onto the Stroh property in the vicinity of the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm. He does have some hesitation regarding what the volumes of those wastewaters were. He also is very concerned with NDMA concentrations in groundwater several hundred metres to the east of the Lanxess/Stroh property line. To me these concentrations alone so far to the east of Lanxess speak to the likely volumes overflowing from Uniroyal Chemical's waste pits from 1943 until approximately 1970. .................................................................................................................... Dustin also may have been misled regarding aerial photographs allegedly showing the location of GP-1. He seems to think that those photographs clearly show the outlines of GP-1 and presumably GP-2. I say nonsense unless of course he was gifted different photographs than the public have received in various CRA or GHD reports. What may have happened is that Dustin was shown groundwater surface ponds within the alleged GP-1 location and simply told that the presence of these groundwater ponds over decades "proves" that this is the real location of GP-1. Absolute horse feathers! Convincing a new TAG member, no matter how qualified in hydrogeology, about a historical discrepancy of a surface feature is mere child's play for truth challenged consultants. .................................................................................................................. Lastly Dustin was also fooled regarding certain surface soil sampling. He suggested that five soil samples taken over the last fourty years along the flowpath to the Stroh Drain somehow proves that only low volumes of wastewaters flowed that way. In fact the highest concentrations have proven to date to be in the lowest lying areas where wastewaters sat for various time periods and the toxic chemicals settled out into the underlying soils. There have not been nearly as high concentrations found in soils along the flowpath versus in the lower areas where they settled out. Also of great importance is that two of the five soil samples are BOGUS and I might add that it seems clear to me that they are intentionally bogus. Not the first time over the last thirty some years that there has been bogus sampling (eg. DNAPL soil testing). Soil samples SS20 and S32(02) are the two BOGUS samples as they were taken not on the flowpath of gravity flowing wastewaters but on the higher ground of the diagonal north-west to south-east ridge running from Uniroyal onto the Stroh property. ...................................................................................................................... And it only took three months to see the Minutes and the written report produced by Dustin last November! Contemptible but oh so typical.