CPAC IS ONE WEEK AWAY

Next Thursday September 27/12 at 6 pm. CPAC will be held in the Woolwich Council chambers. There are a number of current, ongoing and important matters to discuss as well as the usual number of red herrings put forward by Chemtura. A couple of these red herrings include the RWDI peer review of Chemtura's site wide certificate of Approval (air). The other would be their so called five year review of their pump and treat system. The young CPAC have dealt with the Chemtura/CRA hydraulic containment cleanup plan very straightforwardly. They have rejected it as being inadequate without source removal being required including off-site source removal of subsurface contamination. Nevertheless CRA and Chemtura are bringing forth more paperwork and quite frankly nonsense for the purpose of dazzling and burying CPAC in paperwork. In regards to the RWDI peer review let me boil this down to its' essence. I see advantages to both the M.O.E. and Chemtura in this plan. The question is "Where is the public benefit?" Exactly what if anything is in a site wide Air C. of A. for the public? If the answer is nothing then CPAC are simply being used by the M.O.E/Chemtura as allegedly being part of public consultation on the matter.

What should be of significance is the M.O.E.'s comments regarding off-site DNAPL behind the old Varnicolor Union St. site. Further discussion should also revolve around Chemtura's scraping and capping Dioxins and DDT in their south-east corner. Further discussion should revolve around future source removal of DNAPLS and LNAPLS on the Chemtura site. Most of the rest is filler and time wasters which are the M.O.E.'s and Chemtura's specialties.