THE FOLLOWING E-MAIL WAS SENT TO WOOLWICH PLANNING DEP'T RE: ZONE CHANGE & DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL FOR BOLENDER PARK LANDFILL

39A Holdings Ltd./Bolender Park Landfill2 Yahoo / Sent ............................................................................................................... Alan Marshall To: jvink@woolwich.ca , pmerlihan@woolwich.ca Fri, Apr 22 at 9:49 a.m. .............................................................................................................. Jeremy: Councillor Merlihan has requested that I send my concerns regarding the proposed zone change and development of the former Bolender Park Landfill to you. These include but are not limited to : ......................................................................................................... 1) Recent results indicate 73.8% methane in air by volume at GP2-15. This is blandly and self-servingly dismissed as methane not produced by the Bolender Park Landfill. Really? Then it is up to the consultants and proponents to explain exactly where that methane is coming from. .......................................................................................................................................... 2) The limits of the Bolender Park Landfill allegedly have been determined/confirmed by twenty testpits installed in 2021. Unfortunately those test pits are ALL in the east end of the entire property that begins at Arthur St. in the west. In fact municipal garbage has been found by relatively recently installed weigh scales much, much closer to the former Paleshi garage/buildings . If not from the Bolender Park Landfill could it be from the former Arthur St. dump and if so why is methane from there ignored as somehow not being pertinent to methane production and migration? .................................................................................................................... 3) Those twenty testpits are inaccurately described as ONLY having industrial wastes in testpits 2, 3, 9,10, 11, 12, 13 whereas according to photo 4 provided, testpit 5 also has industrial wastes in it. ............................................................................................................. 4) Some industrial wastes are described such as construction debris (wood?), bricks, broken asphalt, concrete, felt etc. Meanwhile for decades there have been written reports (1991 Environmental Audit (CRA)) describing filter cloths from Uniroyal Chemical containing pesticide residues etc. being deposited there. Also when the Bolender Park Landfill was open, Art Gorman, General Manager of Uniroyal Chemical was the Chair of the Sanitation Committee for the town of Elmira. Hardly surprising that Uniroyal wastes entered the Bolender Landfill. Hardly surprising that NDMA , a Uniroyal by-product, was found in multiple monitoring wells in Bolender Park throughout the 1990s.. Other industrial wastes were from Varnicolor Chemical, Great West Felt and Borg Textiles etc.. Therefore I wonder why some of these industrial wastes are briefly described whereas chemical wastes from local textile, chemical and manufacturing plants are not. I have personally seen and smelled buried chemical wastes and they are distinctive to say the least. More than fifty years after the Bolender Park Landfill was closed there are still monitoring wells between that landfill and the Canagagigue Creek detecting industrial chemicals including xylenes, toluene, napthalene etc. Meanwhile a Risk Assessment of the downstream Canagagigue Creek is underway pretending that everything upstream of Uniroyal/Lanxess is just dandy. .............................................................................................................................................. 5) Five new methane gas probes were installed in 2021. ALL of them have concerning and dangerous methane gas concentrations namely : ........................................................................................................................ GP1-21 ......8.2% GP2-21 .....22.1% GP3S-21......1.4% GP3D-21......5.5% GP4-21 ......9.8% .........A previously ( 2015) constructed gas probe (GP2-15) had an astounding 73.8% methane in air by volume. While both it and ............................ GP2-21 actually exceeded the UEL (Upper Explosive Limit) of methane gas nevertheless those concentrations could very easily be ............................ within the explosive limits (5-15%) in the future. Undoubtedly this is why methane alarms were installed in the former Paleshi garage. ............................At one point a few years back CRA (Conestoga Rovers & Assoc.) had also recommended methane alarms in a couple of houses nearest the east end of the Bolender Landfill. The standard rule is that any methane in air by volume exceeding a mere 20% of the LEL (LowerExplosive Limit) are potentially dangerous. That concentration is about 1% methane in air by volume. For these reasons you can understand my concerns regarding unresolved methane issues. After the inadequate active methane gas removal system was removed in 2015 Woolwich came back to the current owner (Mr. Rattasid) asking permission to enter his land to install a passive methane gas removal system. By that point in time I understand that Mr. Rattasid was no longer cooperating with the Township and refused his permission. ............................................................................................................. 6) I would like copies of only five of the reports mentioned in the Page 2-3 (Guideline D-4 Study 39 Arthur Street North, Elmira, ON) Burnside &Assoc. report namely the January 2008 "Landfill Gas Monitoring Probe Installations Bolender Park Landfill.., the February 2009 "Summary of Additional Landfill Gas Monitoring Events Bolender Landfill...", as well as the August 2010, November 2015 and July 2016.Landfill Gas Probe reports mentioned on page 3 . Thank you very much for your cooperation in this matter. ...................................................................................................................................... Jeremy I understand that past failures regarding both methane control/venting and a total lack of industrial leachate control can not be reversed now. That said should some mitigation of the ongoing dangerous methane situation and ongoing leakage of allegedly low concentrations of industrial chemicals into the Canagagigue not at least be seriously considered? ................................................................................................. Sincerely Alan Marshall