MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT - WOOLWICH/ELMIRA CITIZENS PAY FOR LAB TESTING THE MINISTRY & LANXESS REFUSED

I made a promise here two days ago about a major announcement and here it is. Additional soil samples have been taken on the Stroh property. I personally have seen the lab report proving dioxin/furans existence much further south on the Stroh property in and around the Stroh Drain. I have also seen a map indicating where a total of fifteen soil samples were taken and I've been advised that the samples were removed, packaged and then stored according to appropriate and formal protocols. Professional expertise and advice were part of the process. We've all heard the expression putting your money where your mouth is. Well that's what happened. These are privately taken samples of Uniroyal contaminated soils on their eastside neighbouring farm. At the moment I can not give more specific details including whether or not Mr. Stroh had a hand in the taking of these soil samples. ........................................................................................................................... This is not the first time that this has happened during the generally inadequate and mostly dishonest process surrounding the so called "cleanup" of the Elmira Aquifers, soils both on and off the Uniroyal/Lanxess Canada site and "cleanup" of the Canagagigue Creek. Back in 2015 CPAC (Citizens Public Advisory Committee), the group appointed by Woolwich Council in 2011, were nastily and dishonestly given the bum's rush by the new 2014 elected council of then idiots. CPAC however with the permission of the Martin family had technical experts, myself and Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach (CPAC & TAG member) take numerous soil samples both along the Canagagigue Creek on the Martin property as well as along the Stroh Drain/Martin Creek on the same property. That data added further clarification to the extent of off-site Uniroyal Chemical contamination even many decades later. .......................................................................................................................... Recent sediment samples taken and analysed in the Stroh Drain by GHD were discussed at the last TAG (Technical Advisory Group) meeting on August 26/21. Three of the four sediment samples well exceeded the federal criteria for dioxins/furans in sediments. Most TAG members listened and did not comment however two TAG members did provide inaccurate comments regarding the size and significance of the sediment exceedances in the Stroh Drain. The fact is that the 24.4 parts per trillion concentration of dioxins (TEQ) exceeded 94% of all the sediment readings taken in the 2017 Canagagigue Creek Investigation by GHD and 92% of the dioxin readings taken in the 2020 Canagagigue Creek Investigation also by GHD on behalf of Lanxess. These sediment readings also included sediment readings from the Canagagigue Creek where it traverses the Uniroyal/Lanxess property. So much for petty criticism of the significance of these sediment results. ............................................................................................................ The soil samples taken on the east side of the north end of the Stroh Drain have as yet not all been analysed. They are being stored professionally and according to the proper and recognized protocols. The soil sample concentrations analysed to date do not exceed the rest of the soil sample concentrations taken in both the 2017 and 2020 Canagagigue Creek Investigations by as large a margin as the recent Stroh Drain sediment samples do (i.e. 94% & 92%). They do however exceed 56% of the soil samples taken in the 2020 Canagagigue Investigation and 44% of those taken in the 2017 Investigation, also including soil samples taken on the Uniroyal/Lanxess property. To find these concentrations in two out of two soil samples analysed to date beside the Stroh Drain and comparing them even to on-site Uniroyal/Lanxess soil samples leads me to believe that the other thirteen soil samples from the Stroh Drain area will have some very high concentrations. Keep in mind that soil samples unlike ground and surface water samples to not mix as evenly throughout the matrix. In other words toxin concentrations in water tend to be similar to nearby water samples whereas the chocolate chip theory of toxin distribution in soils is more likely. This theory states that high toxin concentrations in soils can readily be accompanied by very low or even zero (Non Detect) concentrations literally inches away. ...................................................................................................................... Despite the best coverup efforts possible by Lanxess, GHD, MOE/MECP, Woolwich Township; all the evidence together is now overwhelmingly in favour of mass flow of toxic liquids from Uniroyal Chemical's east side pits/ponds (RPE 1-5) over to the Stroh property including the Stroh Drain area. This evidence includes topographical maps (i.e. surface elevations), groundwater NDMA results, soil results both along the property line AND beside the Stroh Drain and finally sediment results taken by GHD in the Stroh Drain. GP-1 & 2's serious contamination on the Uniroyal/Lanxess property was a clever and intentional red herring to distract citizens from the bulk of the flow eastwards.