CPAC MEETING IS SIX DAYS AWAY

Next Thursday at 6 pm. is the public CPAC (Chemtura Public Advisory Committee) meeting. The Agenda should be well along by now but just in case here is what should be in it. A maximum of ten minutes discussion on the progress around source removal of Dioxins at GP1 & 2 on Chemtura's south-east corner. Ten minutes on the current status of odour issues and complaints this summer. This could be expanded if there are Elmira residents present with concerns and comments. Ten to fifteen minutes discussion on "other sources" of buried contamination within Elmira. As this will severely impact any alleged "cleanup" of the Elmira Aquifer by 2028, it can no longer be ignored by all parties. Five minutes discussion on the 2010 Annual monitoring Report and another five minutes on the last few Chemtura monthly Progress Reports.

The rest of CPAC (other than housekeeping issues) should be focused on two items namely the July 2003 CPAC Request For Action and the M.O.E.'s horrid update/status letter of June 27/11. I commented briefly on the M.O.E.'s June 27/11 letter here in the Advocate on Saturday July 2/11. Their alleged Update is a pathetic excuse for the lack of action over the last eight years since CPAC unanimously approved the July 2003 Request For Action. To date all the "discussion/debate" has been done privately and not at public CPAC meetings. Also yours truly has been refused access to these private meetings for years precisely because I'm the only one with the knowledge at my fingertips as to where the "bodies" are buried. The M.O.E. must publicly defend their lack of action and their and Chemtura's pretend DNAPL investigations .