INDEED THE TAG MINUTES ARE ON-LINE VERY QUICKLY

O.K. I can quibble about the difficulty in finding the TAG Minutes on the Woolwich Township website but in fact not only are they there but they are there quickly. In those Minutes Lisa Schaefer advised that they normally are put on-line within three weeks. In this case I went looking this morning, a mere ten days later, and in fact they are already up. Essentiallt one needs to look for Committees of Council to find RAC and TAG Agendas and Minutes . Also as the February calendar is up one has to find the arrow at the top left to backtrack one month to January. Lo and behold there are the Minutes for January 27/22. .................................................................................................. Overall they follow my posting of the Minutes on January 28 and 29 here in the Elmira Advocate. There are however greater details regarding failures of hydraulic containment in Lisa's Minutes particularly in Appendic C written by Linda Dickson. These are very well done. The bottom of page 2 of the main Minutes is in error however. It states that "...there has not been any evidence that suggests there is an off-site source of DNAPL." That is totally inaccurate. The particular example is free phase DNAPL (chlorobenzene etc.) found in off-site well OW57-32 located west of Varnicolor Chemical and north of Borg Textiles, very close to the Elmira Water Tower near Howard Avenue. There is also strong evidence of off-site DNAPL on the Yara property although it may be agreed that it isn't an off-site source if it came from Uniroyal Chemical, way back when. Of course this is but one more example of TAG members who din't come on the scene until eight to ten years AFTER much of the DNAPL discussions/investigations hence they have no knowledge of them. .......................................................................................................................................... The so called Technical Meeting of December 14/21 is but one more shining example of Woolwich Township hypocrisy. The very same Woolwich CAO then as now, David Brenneman, appropriately insisted with CPAC members (2011-2015) that private meetings were verboten. Private meetings of course were Pat Mclean's (CPAC Chair 2000-2011) bread and butter and she used them at will as they now seem to be back in style again. Various excuses always thrive whether it's "in the interest of time" or whether it's because they are so technical (i.e. "at a high level", "technical meetings" , "at a very high level". Gotta love the B/S. Page 5 of the Minutes also honestly describes the lack of knowledge of many TAG members in that the reading of the monthly Progress reports has been delegated to Linda Dickson and clearly most of the TAG members never read them. That is both sad and unfortunate. ..................................................................................................................................................... Overall the good news is the timeliness of these Minutes although I doubt that the general public will ever find them much less read them.