Seriously! That was part of their "plan" to avoid having to extend their shallow hydraulic containment to the east side contaminated groundwater. They actually had formal drawings of the east side pits with downgradient, sub-surface Interceptor Trenches installed to intercept the grossly contaminated groundwater migrating westwards towards the on-site Canagagigue Creek. These drawings were notarized and part of the actual evidence submitted by Uniroyal Chemical. I discovered these drawings years later and recall being shocked that they had never been made public by any of the media present at the hearings or by APT Environment who supposedly attended all the Environmental Appeal Board (EAB) meetings. Alas perhaps just one more keep it between us secret shared by Uniroyal and Ms. Bryant.
There were two somewhat parallel Interceptor Trenches which could have been for the Surficial Aquifer and the Upper Aquifer whether UA1 or UA3. Hard to say. They ran for hundreds of metres from north to south down the west side of the east side pits namely RPE 1-5. They then crossed over onto the Stroh property and likely hooked into the sub-surface pipe that discharges into the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm at its' north end. These Interceptor Trenches were also far enough west of the pits that they did not interfere with overflowing surface water and toxins gravity flowing southeards via the large surface swale on the immediate west side of the pits and ponds.
The totally unacceptable, feeble and pathetic excuses and nonsense we were told by Uniroyal/Chemtura should have set the media ablaze as well as the Ontario Ministry of Environment. Literally nothing, allowing both guilty parties to ignore these explosive issues to be covered up. To this day this apparent use of a neighbour's property to surrepticiously bypass the discharge of gross toxins into the on-site Creek in favour of more out of sight, further downstream discharge should have led to serious investigation along with likely charges being laid. Sandy and Woolwich councillors your time is running out due to your intentional avoidance of these and other gross environmental behaviours that you have condoned.
Do not forget the Stroh Gravel Pit right behind the old Stroh barn for all those years and more recently filled in… (due to the Hoffer Gravel Pit - a real gravel pit just down the road- which was always fully staffed and running full time with owned heavy equipment- this so called Stroh gravel pit located on the west side of the old Stroh barn is an anomaly and makes sense only for suspicious reasons benefitting only the Stroh farm owners and the Chemical and poison drainage directly adjoining it!
ReplyDeleteThe politicians and the media and the bureaucrats and officials are corporately captured “ tools” of the Chemical Corp. Ms Bryant and the likes of flip-flop Bauman and some Mayors were just the Chemical Corps practice puppets! It is now painfully apparent that that the current bunch of officials and bureacrats are all useless tools and all under control!
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