Six days and no response to me or CPAC members from my e-mail and formal complaint to the Min. of Environment (MECP) last Saturday. Yesterday's Woolwich Observer had a front page story on the alleged old contamination found in the subsurface soils beneath Church St. E. Interestingly the word coal tar is not in the story despite Lubna Hussain's (MECP) e-mail to myself indicating that the old roadway was constructed with coal tar paving (i.e. macadam).
Right now we have verbal information from the Region (Boris Latkovic) and a brief e-mail from the MECP telling us that the issue is benzene found in soils nearby the old, buried coal tar pavement. This is not good enough as Elmira has a history of being misled and lied to about contamination including the spread of NDMA in our aquifers over thirty years ago. We were also lied to about it being all cleaned up within thirty years. There is absolutely no reason that either the Region or the MECP can not share the lab results with the public, the media and very knowledgable and experienced CPAC members unless of course they have something to hide.
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