Excuses and explanations are just dandy. That is right up until they run into past contradictory explanations. And into common sense. We were told by Uniroyal, Crompton and Chemtura that the pumping Target Rates were the minimum required on-site to maintain hydraulic containment and prevent migration of contaminated water off-site into the rest of the Elmira Aquifers. We were told that the off-site pumping Target Rates were the minimum required to successfully restore the Elmira Aquifers to drinking water standards. Now Lanxess are throwing decades of explanations out the window and replacing them with self-serving explanations such as Oh these are internal Target Rates only. They are not written in stone b/s.
Well that's for sure that they aren't written in stone. On-site pumping continues month after month well below the minimum pumping Target Rate for the Municipal aquifers of 4.7 litres per second. For last month (May) they managed to pump 3.8 l/sec. only on -site while pumping MORE than their historical average of 53 l/sec off-site. They actually pumped off-site (all off-site wells) between 74 and 75 litres per second! In other words they are pumping like mad off-site while NOT even pumping their minimum Target Rate on-site.
Twenty-five to thirty years of pumping on and off site has resulted in NOT achieving their mandated goal of groundwater cleanup by 2028 as admitted by themselves and all parties (MECP, Woolwich etc.). Now it looks to me as if they are intentionally trying to speed up the transfer of their on-site toxic contamination to the rest of Elmira's soils and groundwater. Lanxess you are a beacon for corporate control, power and public relations everywhere at the expense of both the public interest and the environment.
They are intentionally trying to speed up the transfer of their on-site toxic contamination to the rest of Elmira's soils and groundwater!
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