It sure looks that way. I've been posting here each month for most of this year as to how Lanxess Canada have failed to pump the required Target Rate for the grossly contaminated Municipal Aquifers on their site. The Target Rate is the number of litres per second required 24/7 in order to prevent the contaminated on-site aquifers from leaking/draining off-site into the rest of the Elmira Aquifers. Lanxess have failed to maintain that 4.7 litres per second rate for seven of the last eight months of 2022 and failed to do so for eleven of the last fifteen months!
The good news is that TAG are aware of this due to Linda Dickson's regular reports to them from the monthly Progress Reports. The bad news is that TAG either are unaware of the damage this is doing or do not care about it as they have been focused for some time on the sketchy Risk Assessment of the Canagagigue Creek. In effect Lanxess are allowing the somewhat increased off-site pumping to lower the water table there enough to induce outward flow of contaminated groundwater from the Lanxess site. Coincidentally I'm sure this is lowering Lanxess's costs as they pay 100% of the on-site pumping and treatment costs and only 50% of the off-site costs. The other 50% is paid for by you and I the taxpayers. Pretty slick isn't it?
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