Special Bd. of Aldermen — 10/26/15 Page 3
lagoon, the other one is totally covered with sand and virtually solid in consistency, so much that you can walk
on top of it.
Ms. Taylor We have some pictures here too of the material and what it looks like, we can show them to you
now or we can show them to you afterwards.
President McCarthy
Whatever makes the most sense for your presentation.
Mr. Millan-Ramos We understand that when we use the term lagoon it is natural to think of these as liquid.
But in reality it is sludge that has been there for many, many years and it is virtually solid, earthlike
consistency. For members of the public, this is what | am referring to.
Ms. Taylor It just looks like dark soil more than anything else.
Mr. Millan-Ramos Yes, very dark soil. These are pictures from some test pits. Basically what | was saying is
that the consistency of this sludge, oh it went off, is it okay now? Alright, back again. So the idea of showing
you these pictures is to show you the consistency of this sludge in the former lagoons. As you can see it is
pretty much solid, granted in one of the former lagoons, lagoon number 1 is still open and when it rains you will
see liquid in there but the sludge as it has been tested numerous times, is pretty solid in consistency.
Ms. Taylor Show the Aldermen. This is kind of a weird set up.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
What is the top picture again, oh lagoon 2.
Ms. Taylor It is just a test pit so they basically dug, see that is an excavator there on the top, the second
picture.
Mr. Millan-Ramos | have another figure that shows better the location of the two lagoons it is in the
presentation but this one here is lagoon #1 that is the one that is liquid sort of speak.
Ms. Taylor Open, it is not closed.
Mr. Millan-Ramos Open, correct, the other one is totally covered with sand. And | think that is the whole
objective of these figures.
Ms. Taylor There was just a lot of misconception what the material actually looked like and was consisting of, it
was more like this gooey sludge kind of material and it is really not it is more like a soil.
Mr. Millan-Ramos Correct. So | think this is probably fairly obvious to most of you the location of the site, but
again there has been often confusion about what is the site, what is not and | just want to make clear with this
image that we call the Mohawk Tannery Site is what you see highlighted in green and that is what our cost
estimates are based on, it is just strictly work in there. There are other two properties, if this approach with the
current developer follows through, you know would be addressed as well. But there are other, they have
different ownership and we don’t have jurisdiction over them.
Let me move to the next one, this figure here and | realize it doesn’t show that quite well, but you see the two
lagoons....
Ms. Taylor Do you think it’s better in that one?
