CHEMTURA CANADA APRIL 2011 PROGRESS REPORT

A week and a half ago (May 11) I posted a story titled "Woolwich are Running Interference for Chemtura". Indeed the fact that Woolwich and their puppet Committee of Council (CPAC) have been taking up the news both here and in the local media has tended to focus attention away from our favourite local polluter. Today however it's back to business.

On page 3 Conestoga Rovers are again attemting to switch horses in mid stream. Footnote 3 refers to reducing pumping at W5A&B in order to limit interference with on-site pumping at Chemtura. This is hardly news and from day one thirteen years ago many of us wondered about this tug of war between on and off-site pumping. Also of interest is the apparent other reason for limiting pumping at W5A&B which has been dropped. That is the pulling of elevated levels of NDMA, Chlorobenzene and Ammonia from
the W4 area behind Varnicolor Chemical towards W5A&B.

I have on a number of occasions at public CPAC meetings pointed out the amateurish and error filled groundwater maps of CRA. Hydrogeologist Wilf Ruland has actually been so helpful as to agree with my facts and ask Conestoga Rovers (CRA) to be more careful. This month's Progress Report is also amateurishly done although it's not the groundwater maps. This may partially be due to the fact that the old CPAC sold the farm and made concessions including reductions in the production of these maps thus they aren't here at all this month. What CRA have done is some sort of collating/production gaffe. A number of Tables from Attachment A are duplicated and included in the text section at the front.

Lindane is again on the march and rising during 2010 and 2011 in the SWS surface water sytem in the southwest corner.(Fig. B.5) Also Toluene, Ethyl benzene and Xylenes are low but detectable in the MISA (municipal industrial strategy for abatement) drains discharging into the Canagagigue Creek. Even more surprising is that there are small but measureable contaminant increases in the Canagagigue Creek between upstream and downstream locations(Table C.2). This is especially surprising considering the dilution factor after all the rain we've had through April this year.

Finally, literally as always, on page 6 item 7.0 REMEDIATION OF FORMER OPERATING POND AREA it states: "There are no new activities to report for April 2011." In my opinion they should add to this "With God's grace and the assistance of Woolwich Township, this will go on forever." This of course is in reference to the 1991 Control Order issued upon Uniroyal/Chemtura ordering the removal of DNAPLS as a contaminant source. Shame on the lot of you!