CHEMTURA PROGRESS REPORT- JAN. 2012

For the last year I've been vociferously complaining about the lack of off-site pumping at Chemtura. These complaints are because the alleged cleanup of the Elmira aquifer is based upon pump and treat technology being undertaken at a computer modelled rate. These rates are W3- 11.4 litres/second W4 (ie. well #4)- 11.4 l/s W5A- 1.9 l/s
W5B- 1.9 l/s E7 - 26.5 .

Coincidentally or not the off-site pumping rates have been in the dumpster since November 2010 which is the first month after almost our entire Council got thrown out of office. Isn't that weird? Well finally I can report a major change. The off-site pumping has dramatically worsened! It has been literally years since it's been this ridiculously low. It's probably the worst its' ever been with the exception when it was shut down in 2008 for the construction of the new Ammomia Treatment System. But wait the news gets worse. Now the on-site pumping is in the crapper. The on-site pumping is supposed to keep the subsurface dissolved contamination from flowing off site whereas the off-site pumping is supposed to actually clean the Elmira aquifer. Well at the moment neither is even close to occurring.

For the month of January 2012 W3- 0.0 l/s W4- 3.8 l/s W5A- 0.0 l/s W5B- .2 l/s
The on-site pumping was verbally promised a few years ago to be 6.0 litres/ second. The written target rate turned out to be 5.2 l/s. For January 2012 the actual pumping rate was 1.7 l/s .

The excuses are always colourful and entertaining. Maybe some of them are actually truthful. I don't care anymore. Hydraulic containmant was and is a scam. At the very least you would think that the M.O.E. and Chemtura could manufacture and maintain their own illusion and sham. They aren't even that competent.