This is certainly accurate for the newer, younger Township councillors. They haven't got a clue albeit how could they? The CAO, mayor and former TAG Chair Tiffany Svensson are totally different. Unless all three are far stupider than I give them credit for, then they know full well what's going on and are a part of it. Last night's TRAC meeting was yet another case of the same two twits, Luis Almeida and Allan Deal strolling down the garden path with untrained amateurs in tow. Now the likes of Eric Hodgins (RMOW) and maybe one or two other professionally trained persons not so much. I suspect that this is the reason honest persons such as Katherina Richter and Dustin Martin walked away from TAG. The stench of complacency and bulls**t was too overpowering. Only one TRAC member last evening showed the slightest amount of common sense and outrage and that was Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach. He pushed hard against both Luis and Allan Deal's plethora of excuses and lies regarding Lanxess's major pumping reductions and failures especially on-site albeit off-site as well.
Agenda Item 5.1.2.3 discussed pumping rates. and as indicated above it was yet again excuse after excuse as to why over the last three to four years both on and off-site pumping has been decreasing. Decreasing by ridiculous amounts especially when we are told that they aren't going to achieve drinking water standards by 2028. Does an Olympic athlete after being told that he is shy of the Olympic standard, slow down? Does he coast when his coach tells him it's time to get to work ? That is exactly what Lanxess have been doing while making up excuse after excuse rather than getting to it and pumping MORE as they have promised to do in the past.
Then we get to what passes for an "investigation" by these clowns. CRA have been caught over the years fudging and pretending that they are doing scientific inquiry and studies. Dr. Richard Jackson (former TAG Chair) literally laughed at their so called "pilot testing" of ISCO (In Situ Chemical Oxidation). Both Morrison-Beatty's and CRA's DNAPL "investigations" were a farce intended to disprove the obvious which had even been admitted privately by Frank Rovers (CRA) that the site was filled with DNAPLS whether free phase or residual. Honest interpretations of the data showed the same thing.
Last night's "Chlorobenzene Source Evaluation " at TRAC was more of the same. Essentially Allan Deal (GHD) set out to "prove" that Dr. Neil Thompson of the University of Waterloo was wrong when he reported several years ago that there was an excess 1300-1900 kg. of chlorobenzene in the Elmira Aquifers. That "excess" was based upon Uniroyal Chemical records showing exactly how much chlorobenzene was used in production over the decades and how much chlorobenzene was discharged into the wastewaters dumped on site. Lanxess later reported that isotopic analysis proved that it was different chlorobenzene in parts of the Elmira Aquifers than what was discharged on the Uniroyal site.
Mr. Deal's "investigation" had four components to it of which he failed to share the results of the alleged "review of historic chlorobenzene users"; he installed one whole new monitoring well somewhere with a blurry map of where; he collected samples and analyzed them for VOCs and finally he collected samples for isotope analysis. Not a mention by Mr. Deal of Borg Textiles as a historic chlorobenzene user. What relevance was there for the new monitoring well? What did it prove or disprove? His analysis of samples for VOCs was irrelevant in that the samples were from Varnicolor Chemical and "are not COCs at the Lanxess site" which is a whole lot different than saying they are not on the Uniroyal/Lanxess site. COCs are Contaminants of Concern and chosen by Lanxess. Finally the isotopic analysis. What a pile of pus . Where were the samples whether shallow soils or groundwater from the other "historic chlorobenzene users" such as Borg.? No evidence was shared with the public five years ago from Dr. Neil Thompson (likely shared with Lanxess) and the repudiation of it by Allan Deal was presented with equally vague and weak evidence as far as laypersons and the public are concerned. Basically Mr. Deal proved nothing.
On page 16 of Mr. Deal's "Chlorobenzene Source Evaluation" he discussed solubility and the 1% rule. His written quote from the Environment Agency seemed accurate but then he verbally fudged it's interpretation by suggesting that 4,900 ug/l (ppb) was the concentration criteria suggesting DNAPL upgradient was possible. That is false as the lab solubility of chlorobenzene in water is 490,000 ug/l in pure water NOT NOT NOT in the grossly contaminated groundwater on the Uniroyal site. The real on site solubility is referred to as the EFFECTIVE solubility exactly as the quote indicates. Mr. Deal verbally misled TRAC and the public. Feel free to alter the recording to protect the entire, long term DNAPL coverup.
This is the third TRAC meeting and all three have been propaganda sessions. I left last night's meeting at the end of the alleged DNAPL/Chlorobenzene investigation. It's been decades of professional liars spewing junk science to generally spineless but sociable wimps. I'll catch up on the new Control Order and likely pretend, new remediation when the meeting is up on the Township's website. TRAC is also carrying on their anti-public behaviour in either denying them the right to ask questions or delaying it unnecessarily.
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