FOUR OUT OF FIVE FORMER ELMIRA LANDFILLS HAVE NO LEACHATE OR METHANE CONTROLS

That would be M-1 beside Shirt Factory Creek at Park and Union St., Bolender Park Landfill immediately north of Church St. and beside the Canagagigue Creek, First St. Landfill literally built on top of a former meander of the Canagagigue Creek and now on the west side of the creek just south of Uniroyal/Lanxess and Varnicolor Chemical's Lot 91 immediately beside Landfill Creek just before it empties into the Canagagigue. Now keep in mind this last one is an illegal industrial landfill whereas the others were all approved by the Town of Elmira. The former municpal/industrial landfill (M-2) on the Uniroyal/Lanxess site is subject to hydraulic containment from the UACTS (Upper Aquifer Containment & Treatment System) which by the way is not perfect and has occasional losses of containment. ..................................................................................................................... Here's where it gets interesting. Various authorities and fellow travellors lie pretty much constantly. For example they minimize how much and what industrial wastes were deposited/dumped into the various municipal landfills. At least with Varnicolor's Lot 91, minor excavations have not revealed any municipal waste but a plethora of buried drums, solvents and even PCBs. Also the First St. Landfill has buried drums in it. This information I sent yesterday to TAG members, MECP, Lanxess, RMOW and half of Woolwich Council. The buried drums came from excavations around 1965 during construction of the Elmira Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) and yes they are documented in at least one of several reports dated 1985, 1991 and 1992. The last two were authored by Conestoga Rovers & Assoc. for Uniroyal (1991) and CH2MHILL consultants on behalf of the Region of Waterloo (1992). The first one (1985) is the well known "History of Uniroyal Waste in Elmira" written by Wayne Jackman, Anthony Smith and a third who escapes memory at the moment. According to the relevant report the drums containing both solid and liquid contents were stacked on top of each other and buried well below ground surface. The problem today is how carefully were they transferred out of the way from the new STP and into the First St. Landfill. In other words how many were ruptured early on versus how many were carefully placed in the First St. Landfill so as not to rupture right away? It is those that have not yet ruptured/rusted through that are the environmental concern. Currently an already bogus Risk Assessment of the downstream Canagagigue Creek is nearly completed and it has not adequately considered how many drums in how many landfills along the creeks (Shirt Factory, Landfill, Larch's, Canagagigue) in Elmira are still ready to give up their toxins including dioxins, pesticides (DDT), PCBs, and a litany of solvents including benzene, toluene, xylenes, chlorobenzenes, trichloroethylene as well as Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH), lindane, endosulfans, mercury and petroleum hydrocarbons (PHC) such as gasoline, diesel, and their components. ........................................................................................................................................ Or TAG and RAC can simply close their eyes, ears and hold their noses while they greenwash and rubberstamp a nonsensical Risk Assessment that tells us to smile, be happy and please die quietly of unknown causes preferably sooner than later.