The total off-site pumping is around 63 litres per second which historically is a pretty good pumping rate. Pretty good however does not confirm or clarify Chemtura's claim and promises to CPAC back in November 2012 that they would Triple the off-site pumping in order to achieve drinking water standards by 2028. Now of course they've never even come close to those pumping volumes which is only part of the reason that their "cleanup" has failed. This is the people in charge literally renewing their promises year after year that they were going to achieve drinking water standards by 2028. They quit their bragging/lying maybe eight years ago after twenty years of off-site pumping and five or six years after their promises to vastly increase that pumping. Complete liars yet oddly (or not) neither the Ministry of Environment nor Woolwich Township have ever publicly called them on it.
At the same time this month as they are increasing off-site pumping they continue to under pump their on-site wells. The Target pumping rate for PW4 and PW5 was 4.7 litres per second combined. This month as it has been for the last few years the pumping has been reduced to 3.8 to 4.0 l/sec. Apparently replacing pumping well PW5 with new pumping well PW6 has magically reduced how much on-site pumping is required to combat the lower gradients off-site from drawing and overpowering the on-site pumping wells. This "magic" is unexplained as it generally has been for the last 36 years when the polluter is gilding the lily for self=serving reasons.
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