HOW DO MUNICIPAL & PROVINCIAL LIARS OPERATE? SIMPLE, THEY REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE OBVIOUS TRUTHS WHILE EMBRACING NONSENSE AND LIES

 

For example Woolwich, Region of Waterloo, Ministry of Environment and Uniroyal/Lanxess  spent twenty-five years howling to the universe that they would achieve drinking water standards in the Elmira Aquifers right up until they reversed their position around 2016 or 2017. Then suddenly they "discovered" insurmountable problems such as "back diffusion" and later on "asymptotic behaviour".  Their complete reversal in position after twenty-five years was shameless and arrogant. Never have they said "Well maybe we could have done more." or "Gosh we may have overlooked these other factors and problems." 

They intentionally chose the cheapest, least effective and slowest remediation method possible merely hoping to either eventually co-opt their citizen opposition which they did or run them into the ground mentally, emotionally, financially and physically. Obvious truths they've ignored abound. These include the presence of both free phase and residual DNAPLS both on and off site.  They've stickhandled and lied their way around DDT, dioxins, PCBs and mercury in the downstream Creek sediments and soils as well as in various lifeforms simply by hiring another company to do a ridiculous, biased and inaccurate Risk Assessment (HHERA) based upon shoddy sampling and method detection limits exceeding the criteria of the various toxins. 

Off-site flow of Uniroyal Chemical toxins has never ended due to poor hydraulic containment of groundwater as well as overland flow and deposition of contaminants. Their big lie is that they've achieved containment. Really, yet year after year, spring flood after spring flood the concentrations of DDT and dioxins and more, miraculously are not removed after being washed downstream into the Grand River but reappear in the sediments and soils throughout the five miles plus of the downstream Canagagigue Creek. The truth is that for decades off-site flow of contamination was going everywhere including the neighbouring Stroh and Martin farms to the east as well as onto Nutrite (Yara) to the west. The one obvious truth they admit is that NDMA and more flowed via groundwater from their site to the north and south wellfields albeit maybe they want to lie about it going north-west to the north wellfield. Who knows when you are dealing with professional liars.