DOES IT GET WORSE THAN DIOXINS, DDT, NDMA, DNAPLS, PCBS, MERCURY IN OUR AQUIFERS, CREEKS, SOILS, AIR & HOMES?

 Ask TRAC (Technical Remediation Advisory Committee) when they last discussed any of the highly toxic compounds in the Title above. They can honestly suggest that they've discussed NDMA a lot and DNAPLS very little. It's likely been many, many months since discussion of dioxins and DDT in the downstream Canagagigue Creek. Absolutely zero discussion of dioxins or DDT in Elmira's drinking water aquifers. That would be considered rude, inflammatory and grounds for Elmira's largest polluter to walk away FOR THE THIRD TIME from what pathetically passes for public consultation here in Woolwich Township. PCBs and Mercury in the downstream Creek are simply never discussed. That too would be viewed as rude because the MECP somewhat oddly has accused them of contributing everything else but those.  As far as the claim that these chemicals are also in our homes just keep in mind that they all can be transported by air as well as all the other mechanisms.

MECP technically does not stand for Ministry of Expanded Corporate Pollution as it should. That provincial ministry prefers Ministry of Environment, Conservation & Parks which is nonsense. Similar to municipal committees many provincial ministries are simply to stand in as buffers and insulators between outraged citizens and their corrupt and incompetent governments. Uniroyal Chemical and other local, dirty polluters did not poison our lives, bodies and homes overnight. They did it one decision at a time as they found such little government oversight and supervision for each and every self-serving decision not to properly dispose of highly toxic materials but to do so in an inexpensive, careless and negligent fashion.

In answer to my question above, it does get worse. We drink water, we breathe air and we eat food from our gardens. Some of us have also eaten fish from the "Gig" decades ago, some more recently. Warning signs not to do so have only been erected perhaps eight years ago along the Creek and it was done by Woolwich in response to the MECP's refusal to do so..  There is a man made swimming pond perhaps 75-100 metres south-east of Uniroyal/Lanxess on the Martin property. It's water source is both groundwater and surface water. Originally the surface water was from a naturally flowing very small creek originating on the Stroh property in a low lying, wet area just north of the Martin farm. That "water" source was enhanced in the summer/fall of 1983 by the construction of the Stroh Drain which runs parallel to the former Uniroyal property for 125 metres and is about five to ten metres away. This self-serving, manmade Drain was to literally drain the chemical swamp (courtesy of Uniroyal Chemical) on the Stroh property and it was joined into the natural very small creek which discharges both directly and indirectly into the Martin (swimming) Pond as well as directly into the downstream Canagagigue Creek. The Stroh Drain not only drained the chemical swamp on the Stroh and Uniroyal Chemical property but drained some of the contaminated groundwater as well through the children's swimming pond. I view that not just as worse but as likely criminal behaviour.       

Besides seeing these features with my own eyes I have been accompanied by Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach as well as Mr. Flip Flop, former councillor Mark Bauman.