Ten years ago I personally "discovered" the Stroh Drain. Of course my discovery didn't mean that the guilty parties didn't know about it. How could they not? I believe that it was part of the extensive work being done on and nearby the Uniroyal Chemical site during the mid to late 1980s trying to minimize the public outrage all knew was coming when our authorities finally announced the inevitable namely that decades of Uniroyal Chemical dumping of toxic wastes had destroyed Elmira's Aquifers.
Other discoveries followed including the likelihood of Interceptor Trenches being used to intercept contaminated groundwater and carry it off-site to the Stroh property where it discharged from a sub-surface pipe into a surface Drain and then eventually past a kids' swimming pond and into the Canagagigue Creek.
Since then NDMA has been found in deep aquifers more than 100 metres off-site to the east and dioxins and DDT compounds found in the sediments of the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm not to mention lots found on the Stroh property along their west side border with Uniroyal/Lanxess.
The order of the decade has been minimal soil and sediment sampling at minimal depths with nothing but junk science and wishful thinking used to "characterize" the extent of contamination, both areal and vertical. It is much like the MECP's lies about examining the depth of contamination on the Varnicolor Chemical property in Elmira. In 2016 more than twenty years later we found out that there were still half a dozen solvents deep in the soils beneath Varnicolor Chemical.
Accountability and transparency of the alleged "cleanup" are a joke in Elmira thanks to many authorities including Woolwich Township. Frankly anyone thinking about ever being on Woolwich Council best reconsider. Eventually all will be tarred with the same brush of environmental corruption.
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