Much has been made of the cheap and ineffective remediation done here in Elmira since 1992 known as hydraulic containment , also known as pump & treat also known as pump & dump. Source removal has long been the cry of intelligent and honest Elmira citizens. In fact there are a myriad of various technologies involving heat, steam, chemical oxidation (in situ or ex situ), encapsulation, direct pumping, likely radiation and numerous other possibilities.
It turns out that there are two or three local companies located in Kitchener-Waterloo with long and successful track records in cleaning up contaminated sites. Why is it you ask that they have not been brought to the attention of Elmira citizens by our local polluters (Lanxess & others) and or by the Ministry of Expanded Corporate Pollution (MECP) oops I mean (sort of) by the Ministry of Environment , Conservation & Parks? You might also ask why a world renowned groundwater institute located at the nearby University of Waterloo has been ignored by Woolwich and Region of Waterloo politicians for so many decades?
The answer is simple. A sweetheart deal was struck between the province (MOE/MECP) and Uniroyal Chemical way back in 1991 and despite safeguards within that Control Order they have been ignored, amended and obliterated by the MOE/MECP and their fellow travellers. All the guilty parties sat at the table and excluded all the innocent parties. That is how business is done in a psuedo democracy. Meanwhile a local citizen (Mark) has been researching these local and viable cleanup methodologies. Whatever you do Woolwich, Lanxess, TRAC, RMOW make sure you isolate and ostracize him the same way you did CPAC in 2015. The last thing guilty and ignorant authorities want is assistance from unaffiliated, ordinary citizens. It makes all the bureaucrats, politicians and alleged credentialed "experts" look merely human and fallible.
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