IS SCHEDULING A MEETING BETWEEN WOOLWICH COUNCIL & CPAC THE EQUIVALENT OF HERDING CATS?

It sort of seems that way. Now of course part of the problem is exacerbated by Rogers ongoing failures with their Internet and other computer  failures beyond my knowledge or understanding. Then there are the human frailties of CPAC members seemingly too busy with careers and or families to promptly respond to e-mails or phone calls. Finally there is also apparently a problem at the Woolwich Township end with the same thing as their rep has received multiple phone calls and messages from CPAC's Chair Dr. Dan Holt without feeling the need to respond in a timely fashion. There is also the problem of Woolwich Township seemingly unable to understand that a full time, day job does not mean that a CPAC member can attend from either 3:30 pm. to 5:30 pm. nor from 4 pm. to 6 pm. 

I must believe that some good can come from this meeting or I'd have walked by now. The optics and odours are not good. That said I intentionally pushed a few buttons with both councillor Nathan Cadeau and councillor Eric Schwindt. Yes I had thrown in the towel and given up on Nathan until I realized that councillor Schwindt was essentially responding and behaving in the same way and maybe it wasn;t dishonesty, or an agenda of not putting the public interest first. Maybe it was honest confusion and misunderstanding of the facts by those two councillors. The guilty parties responsible for the lack of cleanup to date have been whispering in their ears for the last ten months. I include CAO Dave Brenneman in that group and certainly mayor Shantz although I expect most understand her lack of understanding of the hydrogeological and environmental conditions on and off the Uniroyal/Lanxess site.

There are at least two issues that must be discussed in any review of RAC and TAG. The one is that which I have been trying to do for the last month namely the Upper Aquifer Containment & Treatment System (UACTS) huge pumping reductions and accompanying lack of debate and discussion for many years. The second has to be of course the failure as now recognized and admitted by all to achieve drinking water standards in the Elmira Aquifers by 2028. Public promises were made to CPAC in November 2012 that have not remotely been kept and RAC and TAG have done little or nothing to push Chemtura/Lanxess into compliance with their own promises of greatly increased Municipal Aquifer pumping & treating. Shame on them.