HISTORY OF OFF-SITE PUMPING IN ELMIRA, ONTARIO

Last night I e-mailed with two documents attached, a history of the off Chemtura site pumping wells in Elmira. This information I sent to the entire voting CPAC membership as well as to two other friends and colleagues. The attached documents included a graph showing the total average litres per second of groundwater pumped from five off-site wells namely W4, W4, W5A, W5B and E7. Marked on this graph is the target pumping rate determined by Chemtura's consultants via computer modelling, that will allegedly achieve cleanup of Elmira's water to drinking water standards. Last Thursday (Jan. 12/12), here in the Advocate, I posted reasons why this cleanup is impossible. This graph and the included text show how patheticly low the pumping has been for the last nearly fourteen years. As a result even if one were to accept the initial grossly faulty premise that all the source areas are on the Chemtura site, they still have not achieved the volume of pumping that their own consultants have determined is necessary. The original target pumping rate for the five off-site wells was 64.5 litres per second. From 1998 till the end of 2008 they couldn't get within 20 litres per second of this rate. In 2009 the target rate was lowered to 53.5 litres per second and this they achieved for 2009 and 2010. Last year (2011) their off-site pumping plunged again well below even their reduced pumping target rate. This "cleanup" is nothing but smoke and mirrors. SHAME ON EVERYONE WHO IS A PARTY TO THIS PUBLIC DECEPTION.