DELEGATION TO JULY 28/11 CPAC MEETING

I have just handed out a map of the town of Elmira. Chemtura are labeled by name , just below Church St. on the right side of the page. To the immediate left or west of Chemtura the letter N is marked and stands for Nutrite or Yara. Below Chemtura we have the letters STP for Sewage Treatment Plant. Left or southwest of the STP we have the letter V for Varnicolor Chemical. This is Varnicolor’s 62 Union St. site. Directly below or south of the STP we have the letter L. This stands for Landfill as in First St. Landfill. Currently this site is occupied by the Region of Waterloo Transfer Station. Chemtura plus other local industry enjoyed dumping priveleges in this landfill decades ago. Again below or south of the Landfill we have another V for Varnicolor. This was Varnicolor’s infamous Lot 91. Solvents were stored, leaked and dumped on this site for years. P.C.B.’s and other toxic goodies were discovered buried in leaking drums on this site. Due west or left of Lot 91 and due south of Varnicolor’s Union St. site we have the letter B standing for Borg Textiles. With the exception of a couple of local citizens, namely Rich Clausi and myself, this site has escaped all scrutiny as a potential polluter and contributer to the south wellfield contamination. The letter S, south and west of Borg stands for Sanyo Canadian. Their claim to toxic fame may possibly be no more than their proximity to Well CH38 which historically has had inappropriately high NDMA concentrations. If one were to draw a straight line from Pumping Well 4 (PW4) to the south wellfield marked as E7 , just a couple of inches below Sanyo on the map, one could not help but notice that the line from the most heavily contaminated area at Chemtura (PW4) neatly bisects many other contaminated sites along the way. This is of concern as in the early days of the 1989 well shutdowns , many experts expected nearby contaminant sources to be the cause, not Uniroyal. It was two years later in the middle of an adjourned Environmental Appeal Board hearing that the M.O.E. and Uniroyal did their private deal, assigning all blame to Uniroyal. This map, common sense and hard evidence of Chlorobenzene behind Varnicolor , high NDMA at well CH38 and little or no Aquitard below Varnicolor’s Lot 91 , say otherwise. Further to Lot 91 at least two Uniroyal employees had seen and reported to the M.O.E., dumping on Lot 91. I saw dumping with my own eyes and evidence above and beyond buried drums, of massive, ongoing liquid solvent dumping on this site. I stand here before you and tell you that employees plural of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment were exposed as covering up pollution evidence as well as of being untruthful, by Richard Clausi, Ted Oldfield and myself, all members at the time of APT Environment.
None of the above mentioned pollution , to my knowledge, includes Dioxins. These members of the dirty dozen are in a class of their own and need to be removed from Chemtura. For the last two years I have been bringing this information and evidence of other sources to public CPAC meetings. The Chlorobenzene is in the form of DNAPL and was discovered by CRA , 100 feet below the surface, in 1998. I found it in one of their old monthly Progress Reports two years ago. To this day neither Chemtura nor the M.O.E. have so much as confirmed or denied the existence of this off-site pollution publicly here at CPAC. Past CPAC members themselves have refused to discuss or question this information. I have quoted in writing the exact report and page numbers and not a whisper from CRA, Chemtura , the M.O.E., or the old CPAC . This is why you will never have drinking water out of the Elmira Aquifer. There is and has been an ongoing conspiracy to deceive the public. The whole public premise of the cleanup has been to isolate and contain Chemtura’s buried wastes on site , while simultaneously pumping and treating DISSOLVED contamination off-site. While I believe that this is currently unachievable anyways; the presence of below ground, unremediated multiple sources of contamination throughout the Elmira Aquifer make this a fantasy. CPAC your mandate is to ensure that we have our local drinking water restored. You are being grossly deceived and misled by Chemtura and their friends.

Alan Marshall Elmira Environmental Hazards Team