The front page story on October 21, 2016 was titled "Chemtura starts offsite chemical probe". It was followed by a Record Editorial on October 28, 2016 titled "Get serious about Elmira cleanup".News flash K-W Record: Uniroyal and successors have never been serious about cleaning up Elmira. It's all been for show and for appearances. It's now eight years later and what has been done? Not a single shovel full of contaminated downstream soils and sediments have been removed from the Canagagigue Creek. Our aquifers are not only admitted to being still well above drinking water standards for NDMA and chlorobenzene (& likely other chemicals) but all guilty parties are dancing a jig of joy for their public relations acumen and how their false and pathetic excuses are being lapped up. Perhaps that's why they call them lapdogs rather than watchdogs?
The so called chemical probe on the east side Stroh property was just one more sham among many. Fifteen centimetres or 5.9 inches is how deep those swine sampled the soils. Despite this they got tons of hits above health criteria. They sampled perhaps 15 metres eastwards from the Uniroyal property line with Stroh.
As far as the Record's Editorial let me ask them this. If Chemtura's and the M.O. E.'s cleanup wasn't serious eight years ago what the hell is it now? A JOKE, a FARCE, a SCAM ? All they are doing right now is smoothing and fine tuning their excuses as to why they are still decades away from restoring the Elmira Aquifers to drinking water standards. I and a few other CPAC members have been telling the media and the corrupt Ministry of Environment for decades as to what needed doing and they have only been listening to the company's bought and paid for experts (QPs) as well as a few co-opted semi citizens on the Woolwich hand picked committee who have benefited personally from giving concessions to the polluter.
Come on K-W Record WE STILL NEED YOU TO DO YOUR JOB!
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