The following is an e-mail I recently sent to Stacey Bruce of Woolwich Township. Stacey is the Support person for TRAC.
Stacey: Thank you for passing along the October 2024 Monthly Progress Report. Also I appreciate the seven page letter to Tiffany Svensson (TRAC) dated November 14, 2024 and sent by Luis Almeida of GHD. While I have only briefly examined to date TRAC Question 1 and 4, I can advise you for your own information that Mr. Almeida's answers are woefully inaccurate.
His map is very poor as are his comments that the Gap area is topographically high which is nonsensical , inaccurate and likely intentionally disingenuous. It is unfortunate that Sebastian (& Tiffany) continue to reference "the Gap area" as either symbolic or significant to the major issue of massive liquid wastes flowing onto the Stroh property from Uniroyal Chemical's east side ponds (RPE 1-5). The gravity flowing toxic liquid wastes crossed the property line from Uniroyal to the Stroh farm (west to east) for almost the entire length of the Uniroyal site with the notable exception being the southern end of "the Gap area" whose surface elevation begins to rise as it meets the very large, diagonal, north-west to south-east ridge of high land that is mostly on Uniroyal's property with a very little on the Stroh property. Luis is just having fun by pretending to think that "the Gap area" only consists of the high ground at the southern end of the Gap area. Obviously liquid wastes flow downhill via gravity and it is typical for example of Uniroyal/Chemtura to sample soils on the higher ground and then pompously declare that gosh we didn't find any evidence of migrating liquid wastes here.
The sampling on the Stroh farm has been minimal, shallow and totally bogus and unacceptable and Lanxess gratefully thanks the MECP for their service to the cause of sham cleanup.
Stacey feel free to send this my early response on to TRAC .
Thank You Alan Marshall
There are more issues and inaccuracies in Mr. Almeida's letter than mentioned above. Ms. Bruce has already indicated that she sent my e-mail on to TAG for what good that will do.
how far out east into the Stroh farm do you believe that the chemicals flowed historically? before? and after the ditch/berm was allowed to be done
ReplyDeletethe land surface dips downwards from the Lanxess property line all the way to the laneway entering the Stroh farm. Most would not have gone nearly that far but certainly there were signs of vegetative distress for the first 30-40 metres at the north-east end by the Uniroyal/Lanxess property line for decades.
Deletethe first 30-40 meters mentioned above, all drains south by gravity correct? to the GIG
Deleteaccording to Woolwich zoning and Vacant Land Inventory Lanxess has a 18.4 Hect. piece of VACANT development land located east of their buildings that is already zoned M-2 Industrial --- a new eastside bypass to ???
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