I have over the last few months been looking at both the 2020 Soil & Sediment Investigation of the Canagagigue Creek (GHD) as well as at the Fish Tissue testing report done in 2022 by the MECP. Both reports are damning especially when we consider that allegedly Uniroyal Chemical stopped dumping untreated wastes into the Creek in the very late 1960s (almost 1970). How is it possible that the blatant dumping stopped by 1970 yet we still have lots of soil, sediment and fish tissue samples in excess of either provincial or federal criteria more than half a century later?
Clearly the former Uniroyal site is a saturated mess of toxins and chemical wastes leaking, oozing and generally migrating off-site on an ongoing basis. Clearly much more source removal on site, as suggested and requested by citizens for decades, is required. Clearly this will require legal orders and legal action by the MECP to accomplish. Unless of course our provincial and federal politicians get their act together and make the environmental cleanup laws stronger and less vulnerable to frivolous delays and appeals.
I am about to conclude a look at the 2017 Soil & Sediment Investigations of the Canagagigue Creek. Same thing as the 2020 one in that there are a ton of detections of dioxins and DDT compounds both above and below the provincial and federal criteria. There are also of course mercury and PCBs above criteria as well. It is a disgusting mess and Lanxess's attitude is that well our bought and paid for Risk Assessment says that there are no unacceptable downstream risks so we don't have to do anything. That is both bull and lies. Is this also an example of gaslighting by our authorities ? Or does the gaslighting start when Lanxess suggest that voluntary out of the good of their hearts, simply to calm the unenlightened Woolwich citizens, they might just decide to clean up one, two or three "hotspots"? Lying by any other name is just as contemptible.
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