Do not be alarmed however. These are professionals fooling around with your groundwater and possibly somewhere down the road your drinking water again. Maybe. If we are lucky. To date they've had thirty-six years to show us what they can do and it's been pathetic. They have made claims as to how many kilograms of chlorobenzene and NDMA they have removed from our former drinking water aquifers which sound impressive. The problem of course is that they are still nowhere near where they have to be for the water to be safe to drink. That is so even by the inadequate standards and lack of parameters tested by the Region of Waterloo and the province of Ontario.
On-site groundwater pumping has been slipping for the past two or three years. Off-site has been all over the place albeit NEVER even close to the November 2012 promises by CRA and Chemtura (Jeff Merriman) to TRIPLE the volume of pumping. Later they mentioned doubling their pumping but even that has never even come close to being achieved. Isn't it swell when the polluter is in charge of everything and the regulator meekly asks if all is well?
So the July Progress Report is out and on-site total pumping from wells PW4 and PW6 is a total of 3.2 litres per second. The long term Target is 4.7 litres/second but they haven't hit that since January 2022. That's ONCE IN NEARLY THE LAST FOUR YEARS. Off-site pumping is even worse. The following off-site wells all have the exact same volume of groundwater pumping last month namely W3R, W5A, W5B, W6A, W6B, W8 andW9. That volume is ZERO !
Bit do not fret. GHD and Lanxess with the usual protection from the MECP say it's O.K. Let me repeat that: They all say that zero off-site pumping from seven of the eight off-site pumping wells is O.K. Well I don't know about you but when decades of corporate falsehoods and nonsense add up to failure to properly clean both the groundwater and the Canagagigue Creek I remain skeptical.
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