GUTLESS M.O.E. PANDERS TO CHEMTURA

Yesterday I sent a one page document to the Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC) confirming for them a long list of chemical detections in the groundwater in the south-east corner of Chemtura's (Uniroyal) site. This is in response to both the Ministry of the Environment's asinine comments in support of Chemtura's asinine comments at last week's public CPAC meeting. They both claim that there is no mechanism for Dioxins and DDT which are in the subsurface shallow aquifer fifty to a hundred feet from the Canagagigue Creek that would enable those chemicals to migrate into the creek. Keep clearly in mind that both Dioxins and DDT have already been found mobilized in on-site groundwater. The mechanism for these two chemicals which have an affinity to adhere to soil particles rather than readily dissolve, is solvents. That would be the same solvents which mobilized these two chemicals in the first place allowing them to move from the east side pits southwards into the area known as GP1 & GP2. I am going to reproduce one list of chemicals found in only one nearby monitoring well, namely Observation Well OW143-7. 2,3,4,5-TCP (tetrachlorophenol), 2,3,4,6-TCP, 2,3,5,6-TCP, 2,4,5-TCP (trichlorophenol), 2,4,6-TCP, 2,4 DCP, 2,6 DCP, 2-Chlorophenol, m,p cresol, 2-MBT, Aniline, BT, Carboxin, NDEA, NDMA, NMOR, Chlorobenzene. This is the minimum number of chemicals in the groundwater from this well in 1996. It is the minimum because Marshall's Law states that you will never find chemicals that you don't test for and there are literally hundreds that weren't tested for. Secondly we have to go back and check results years ago because the number of wells and parameters being tested for has been reduced over the years. This was one of my complaints to the old CPAC as they kept giving concessions to Chemtura such as reduced frequency of testing as well as reduced parameters ie. chemicals to be tested for.

Apparently both Chemtura and the M.O.E. are capable of distinguishing the identical Dioxins and DDT found miles downstream in the Canagagigue Creek. They claim those were from a different area on their site which they remediated. No they haven't retested to see if downstream is cleaning up. They are simply confident that their site is not leaking Dioxins and DDT anymore. It is nothing more than wishful thinking. It doesn't even deserve the term psuedo science because that's too good of a discription for their position. While the rest of Northern Ontario are talking about a serious cleanup of Dioxins sprayed along railroad tracks, roads and forest edges, Elmira once again is looking at a pretend cleanup. Thank you M.O.E..