CHEMTURA PROGRESS REPORT- JULY 2010

The good news is that to date , Chemtura are maintaining both their on- site and off-site pumping regiemes. Conestoga Rovers here and there (pg. 6 of 8) refer to typically and historically pumping at high rates to maintain hydraulic containment, but this is their usual puffery. The reality is that the sucessful pumping rates they've maintained for the last year or two are the exception not the rule.

In regards to the treatment of this contaminated groundwater which they then discharge to the Canagagigue Creek, they have been less sucessful. They exceeded their discharge objectives for NDMA, Dichloroethane, Formaldehyde and Lindane. This is not good.

Last month they had exceedances of NDMA in the surface water ("GiG") . This month they do not however despite allegedly using "best efforts" to sample the "Gig" (Canagagigue) at low flow, they took the sample when the water flow was 1,020 litres / second versus only 280 litres/ second in June. Dilution still is the solution to pollution in this province. Don't kid yourself otherwise.

Again with the high pumping, on- site hydraulic containment of the Municipal Upper Aquifer is good but apparently not perfect. CRA (Conestoga Rovers) claim that the groundwater contours show minor off- site flow but that the groundwater then flows back on site and is captured. If it's your property it's flowing off- site onto, you might not be too happy about this. Also the M.O.E. have stated in the past that this is not acceptable, however their flexibility (read contorsionism) means that they will probably roll over on this item as well.

There is a storm water drain referred to as SWS in the southwest of the site. This month as usual it's discharges include measurable quantities of Aniline, Benzothiazole, NDPA and Carboxin. This again is one of many dirty little secrets concerning alleged toxic cleanups in this Region and province. All of these sites leak like sieves. This is intentional. Therefore the longer the M.O.E. draws out so called "cleanups", the more of the contaminants have dispersed off-site, downstream and downgradient. None of this information in their monthly "Progress" Report addresses source removal of Uniroyal's (Chemtura) buried wastes and DNAPLS (dense non aqueous phase liquids). This monthly report hence is a smokescreen as it was meant to be.