Progress my butt! Everything we were told for years and years now apparently is out the window. So was Uniroyal/Chemtura lying to us then or is Lanxess lying to us now? I have a rule of thumb. When in doubt about bizarre or outrageous claims by polluters the odds are 95-97% that you are being lied to as usual. In this particular case I believe that we were lied to by Uniroyal/Chemtura as well as by Lanxess Canada although the lies may very well be on different matters.
In past decades we were advised that there was a strong relationship between the volume of on-site pumping and the volume of off-site pumping. In fact way back when, rather grudgingly it was admitted that the much higher pumping rates off the Uniroyal/Chemtura site could actually "pull" or draw groundwater contaminants off site. Think about it: if the normal Target pumping rate for on-site wells (whether PW4 & 5 or further back PW1, PW3 and PW4) was 4.7 litres per second and the normal total of all off-site pumping wells was 53 litres per second then everything was good. Keep in mind that the on-site wells pumping to maintain hydraulic containment are right there in the heavily contaminated areas on site and the off-site pumping wells are hundreds of metres and more DOWNGRADIENT i.e. further away such that while their pumping has an influence on-site presumably the pumping wells right there on site are pumping adequately to prevent on-site groundwater from flowing off site.
This relationship has now been clearly abandoned without any public explanation. On-site pumping is a ridiculously low 3.12 - 3.7 litres per second versus the standard for many years of 4.7 l/sec. Meanwhile off-site pumping over the last few years has been higher than the original 53 l/sec sometimes actually hitting 70 l/sec. Currently of course with the also new and poorly explained slowing of off-site pumping to allegedly mimic some sort of "steady state" aquifer conditions for testing of contaminant concentrations, we can expect much lower off-site pumping. That said June 2025 off-site pumping still averaged 62.8 l/sec with greatly reduced on-site pumping just beginning on June 27/25.
It just seems so obvious to me that what they are doing is lessening Lanxess's toxic load on their property here in Elmira by allowing it to be drawn off-site and downgradient by their greatly reduced on-site pumping over the last couple of years and more. Don't expect any TRAC members to demand a better or clearer explanation of what's going on. That would be viewed as rude or disrespectful and if this "cleanup" is about anything it's about always being nice. Sandy says that is important.
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