Well now this is almost a synopsis if you will if the last year or so. Starting with dioxin contaminated milk we now know that it has been contaminated since the 1960s. This information comes from government records of the day discovered by university researchers . Then from Susan Bryant we learn the truth (?) on November 15/25 that she lied to me back in the 1990s about dioxins tested for and found in milk from cows along the downstream Canagagigue Creek. Based on this information and more I have to strongly suspect that our milk sourced from these farms still has dioxins in it. Thank You Regional Health Unit as well as Woolwich Township. Apparently poisoning Old Order Mennonite farmers and the general public is O.K. whereas depriving them of their milk quotas is not!
The Varnicolor Chemical site was so grossly contaminated with solvents that the light ones were floating on top of the water table. These were inadvertently discovered by Digger Dave Holmes around 1989. Varnicolor's owner publicly stated that Digger Dave "was full of shit" when he reported that either at a public meeting or to authorities. The light solvents are referred to as LNAPLS for Light Non Aqueous Phase Liquids and the heavier ones as DNAPLS or Dense Non Aqueous Phase Liquids. Varnicolor Chemical had both and all of them ended up in the Elmira drinking water aquifers although it took 35 years for authorities to admit only that many of the heavier, chlorinated solvents descended deep enough to enter the Municipal Upper drinking water Aquifer.
Jesse Wright at a June 2025 TRAC meeting advised that chlorinated solvents (chlorobenzene) were found at several industrial/commercial locations in and around First St. and Howard Ave. This may have been done in order to explain the admission of former DNAPLS present beside the Howard Ave. water tower in Elmira throughout the 1990s and later. That second admission came from the Minutes of s September 2024 TRAC meeting in which Allan Deal (GHD) attempted to slickly avoid admitting anything about chlorobenzene DNAPLS ever being on the Varnicolor site. Same with NDMA. Varnicolor was protected by the authorities from blame over ruining our drinking water aquifers for decades until they finally admitted multiple chlorinated solvents from Varnicolor did contribute to those ruined aquifers.
Joe Ricker (not GHD probably WSP) made disingenuous statements as well as deflective statements suggesting that our aquifers couldn't be cleaned by 2028 due to "ASYMPTOTIC " principles. My opinion is that he is full of shi*. Asymptotic principles may be a real thing but his description sounded and smelled like bulls*i*. I believe that he misapplied a real mathematical principle for the self-serving benefit of his client (Lanxess) and himself.
At long last the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) are appropriately getting dragged through the mud in which they have frolicked for so long. Their behaviour towards both Caroline Burjowski and trustee Mike Ramsay has been disgusting. What is nearly as disgusting in my opinion is that our courts take so *ucking long to hear cases and render intelligent opinions. Yes by the way just for the record all their opinions are NOT always intelligent. That said they are going to have to really stretch their credibility to be able to find loopholes or legal machinations that would let the WRDSB off the legal hook that in their arrogance and willingness to spend taxpayers money to the last nickel; that they have put themselves upon.
Pathetic appeal bodies I believe are mainly to give mostly powerless citizens some hope that somewhere there is justice. Of course here in Canada and possibly the United States we have the very best judicial systems in the world THAT MONEY CAN BUY. Otherwise they suck. OMB now OLT (Ontario Land Tribunal), EAB now ERT (Environmental Review Tribunal, Integrity Commissioners, Ombudsmen and on and on. The system is corrupt and every now and then a politician or other big shot gets his fingers wrapped for some minor offence just to give the rest of us some hope yet again that the entire system isn't corrupt from start to bottom. It is but there are worse systems around the world which is one hell of a pathetic compliment to our systems.
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