Do they have any ethics or morals at all? Did they get written permission from either the companies or the residents along Union St. N. to permit contamination to flow off the former Uniroyal site allegedly to "optimize" the cleanup? This was done starting about twenty years ago. Actually intentionally increasing the sub surface toxic load including in the drinking water aquifers.
How much of the off-site Dnapls (chlorobenzene & others) have actually been discovered to date? How many are Lanxess and GHD prepared to properly clean up? Originally I was aware of the dnapls at OW57-32R as well as at Nutrite with the extraordinary groundwater concentrations of substances such as Benzothiazole, Mercaptobenzothiazole, Carboxin and Aniline. Now courtesy of common sense and Arcadis (Jessie Wright) we are aware of many more just south-west of the former Uniroyal site.
Part of the problem of course is how long it will take for the dnapls to dissolve into the groundwater. Until they are either removed or fully dissolved in decades or centuries they will remain as a long term contaminant source to the Elmira Aquifers which they are in. While local contaminants such as NDMA and chlorobenzene to date really aren't that close to drinking water standards after 27 2/3 years of remediation (pump & treat), there are others undoubtedly that are even further from their Ontario Drinking Water Standards.
Of course we can not count on any honest information from the company, their consultants, the Ministry of Environment, Woolwich Township or the Region of Waterloo. Control Orders are for Putzes would be a good protest sign. Any new claims of miraculous cleanups via a new Control Order is likely wishful thinking. Any denials by the guilty parties of recently discovered data and facts are most likely shameless and self-serving lying to save money and jobs.
Remember no lie is too small and no lie is too large not to be embraced and entrained by corporate polluters.
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