OCTOBER 2023 : UNIROYAL & SUCCESSORS "CLEANUP" HAS FAILED

November 1989 - October 7, 2023 ... Three weeks shy of THIRTY-FOUR YEARS !  

What has been accomplished?  We do not have our drinking water aquifers restored. Self-serving claims suggest that 90% or more of the toxins have been removed. One that is the claims of professional liars and it means nothing when the health criteria for NDMA can not be achieved by pump & treat technology and two that does little or nothing for the remaining dozens of toxic chemicals in our municipal, drinking water aquifers introduced by Uniroyal, Varnicolor, Nutrite and others; whether or not those dozens of others exceed their individual health criteria. All criteria are based on the false and inaccurate assumption that there is only the one contaminant, currently being examined, in the groundwater. Everybody, including the professional liars, agree that drinking water standards for NDMA can not be achieved with four more years (2028) of pump & treat.

The Canagagigue Creek is home to suckers, carp, shiners and chub. Allegedly there is the odd bass and pike. Regardless the Creek is also filled with mercury, PCBs, dioxins/furans, DDT, PAHs and lots more. Gosh and golly just like our groundwater. Wasn't Uniroyal generous to spread their filth pretty much everywhere including ground water, surface water, air, soils and creek sediments? Oh and of course many of the fish in the Creek are also full of these toxins. Lanxess's answer to this is a Risk Assessment (HHERA) that claims that there are no unacceptable risks downstream of the Uniroyal/Lanxess property. Hence no cleanup is required. The clear and simple exceedances of all health criteria the length of the Creek (5 miles) to its mouth (Grand R.) are to be trumped by the self-serving and self produced Risk Assessment. Just imagine if murderers got to be in total charge of their trials in our courts. Exactly how many convictions do you think would ever occur?   

For now we'll pretend that the disgusting soils, waste pits, ponds and lagoons on the site don't exist. We can also pretend that chemicals known as LNAPLS and DNAPLS have all magically disappeared because their cleanup has been avoided at all costs for many years/decades. We'll also pretend that humans within a five mile radius who have died from cancers and or respiratory diseases had virtually no connection to Uniroyal Chemical's toxins. 

THIS, WOOLWICH COUNCIL IS THE MOST FLAGRANT EVIDENCE OF THE FAILURE OF RAC & TAG BUT THEN THAT WAS YOUR INTENT IN THE FIRST PLACE. 

BOTH LANXESS & THE MIN. OF ENVIRONMENT (MECP) THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.