TAG DISCUSSION OF STROH FARM CONTAMINATION IS COMING

This will be of course against the wishes of Lanxess Canada, GHD their consultants, the Ministry of Environment (MECP), possibly/probably Woolwich Council. Delay on the matter has been ongoing of course since the fall of 2014 when CPAC brought the issue to the forefront after I "discovered" the Stroh Drain in May 2014. That evening Viv Delaney and Dr. Dan Holt and I all toured the SDDB (Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm) from the pipe coming out of the ground at its' extreme north end down to its' discharge into the Canagagigue Creek from the Martin property. There have been some extraordinarily limited, last minute "discussions" at the end of formal TAG meetings with myself and Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach. Some TAG members may have hung around, others did not. ........................................................................................................................... DDD, a metabolyte of DDT, was found in sediments in the Stroh Drain at approximately ten times the criteria for them. Dioxins (TEQ) were found in the deeper sediments in the SDDB at approximately 30 times the federal criteria. Keep in mind that two samples were taken at all of two locations along the Drain (SDDB). Furthermore the two samples were taken at both 0-10 cm. depth and 10-30 cm. depth. Hence this was an extraordinarily limited sampling, one could almost say tokenism in order for Lanxess to pretend to have done a good job in examining the pathway from the former Uniroyal site (now Lanxess) over to the Stroh and Martin properties and then into the Canagagigue Creek. ................................................................................................................................... What needs to be done is a comparison of contaminant concentrations in the sediments of the SDDB with contaminant concentrations in sediment in other locations around the Uniroyal/Lanxess site. These locations include the Bolender Park Landfill Creek, Larch's Creek, Shirt Factory Creek, Landfill Creek, Reach 4, 3 and 2 in the Canagagigue Creek which runs from the Lanxess site down to the Grand River just south of West Montrose. This I have done and the contaminant concentrations in the Stroh Drain (SDDB), with the exception of Reach 4 which is part of the Uniroyal/Lanxess site, are generally higher than in all the other locations. ............................................................................................................................. Now I would very much like to be able to compare soil concentrations in and around the Stroh Drain (especially to the immediate east of it) with soil concentrations at the other locations around the Lanxess property as already listed. Oops I forgot. Lanxess/MECP/GHD refused to take any soil samples from the area near the Stroh Drain. These other locations all had both soil and sediment samples taken and hence an examination will help us determine if they might still be adding to the contamination in the Canagagigue. Of course the guilty parties have and continue to refuse any and all suggestions to do serious soil sampling in and around the Stroh Drain. Afterall you will never find that which you refuse to test for.