Below is an e-mail that I sent to the Citizens Public Advisory Committee (CPAC) this morning partially describing last evening's public but virtual TAG meeting.
OBSERVER's LETTER TO THE EDITOR
CPAC+: Once in a very long while we swing for the fences and
hit a home run. Well it's happened. I wish that I
(and possibly Sebastian) knew at last night's TAG meeting that
the Observer had published my very strong, very blunt and very
critical Letter To The Editor regarding what Sebastian was
describing last evening to his TAG colleagues. Not a one of them
supported him although Susan B. to her credit did speak strongly
in favour of removing the known (but not unknown due to lack of
representative sampling) "hot spots" along the Creek. She wants
support from TAG and has it at least in principle and as possibly
a bargaining chip. When push comes to shove TAG will also
likely drop their DEMAND (ha: from their knees with hands in a
praying position) that the "hot spots" be remediated.
Sebastian was strongly and appropriately criticizing the MECP
Sediment & Fish sampling report released last September.
Sebastian you were magnificent whereas your colleagues are
stunningly biased, and self-servingly blind. Wilson's arguments
about shovels being O.K. are garbage! Funny when Joe Kelly
was discussing the loss of sediment fines from using shovels
two or three years ago, not a peep out of Wilson. Now it's all
about cross contamination b/s. IT'S THE LOSS OF FINES
USING SHOVELS versus proper CORE SAMPLERS!!!
That .itch Tiffany also argued against Sebastian by suggesting
falsely that location CANCR 5 upstream of the mouth of the
Stroh Drain/Martin Creek has the highest concentrations. It
does for DDT in sediments but the lowest concentrations of
dioxin/furans of all the locations from Uniroyal/Lanxess to the
Grand River. PAHs have the highest sediment concentrations
downstream well below CANCR5 at CANCR6 (New Jerusalem
Rd.) with CANCR5 being the second LOWEST concentrations.
Similarly Tiffany Svensson also behaved like a Lanxess/MECP
apologist by minimizing the failure of the on-site Municipal
Aquifer pumping wells PW4 & 5. Since September 2021 they
have made their TARGET PUMPING RATE of 4.7 l/sec only
ONCE namely January 2022 exactly at 4.7 l/s. Every other
month has been below that TARGET RATE up to and including
September 2022. In the footnotes GHD clearly state that they
recommend that Lanxess pump at the Target Rate or HIGHER!!!
I had suggested to Dr. Dan, Viv and Richard that perhaps the
cloud of Sandy's being re-elected might have a silver lining. By
the way Dr. Dan worked his butt off with much assistance from
Sebastian and others during the election! The silver lining is if
the Observer choose to finally cover RAC and TAG meetings
properly. Leah Gerber (Observer) was there virtually last night.
Also the silver lining is if the Observer are more welcoming of
Letters To The Editor from CPAC members (Dr. Dan recently).
My Letter To The Editor was published yesterday. I let the
MECP and Lanxess have it right between the eyes. I also
brought up the well hidden fact seen by myself, Sebastian
and Mark Bauman that there is a pipe diverting some water
from the Stroh Drain/Martin Creek into the Martin swimming
pond. I have little confidence that Mark would ever honestly
testify to what he saw and later described to me whereas
Sebastian and I together traced the pipe from the northern
end of the pond due south into the swimming pond
("water" was running at the time).
Sebastian your colleagues are playing a game and Tiffany
and Wilson are hard on board the Lanxess/MECP train.
David Hofbauer had very little to say last evening but at
least he wasn't disagreeing or criticizing your position.
Linda Dickson is out of her depth. In the past Dustin Martin
concerned me although recently somewhat like David
H. he hasn't been attending much (Guilt???) Susan is and
always has played her own game. Sebastian what did you
think of her "threat" right at the end of the meeting regarding
a PROTEST if the hot spots aren't cleaned up? I believe that
her TAG colleagues will wish her well and perhaps other than
yourself, leave her to protest on her own. Also I think that it's
a hollow threat although I wish it weren't.
Alan Marshall .
Yahoo/Se
No comments:
Post a Comment