CPAC AGENDAS NEED WORK

Following are a list of items that should be on the next AGENDA for the upcoming public CPAC meeting of Thursday February 23, 2012. Some of them have fallen by the wayside over time, others have been intentionally ignored by various parties but none of them are new.

As was brought to the attention of CPAC last fall, years ago CPAC passed a Motion to make the July 2003 Request For Action a standing Agenda item. Put it on.

David Marks many months ago asked the Ontario M.O.E. for their rationale for not pursuing "other sources" of contamination in Elmira. Still waiting M.O.E. .

125 barrels in various states of disrepair were excavated in the M2 area (south-west) of Chemtura last summer. To date we have no pictures and no soil or water results. How much soil if any was removed as well?

GP1 & GP2 lab results have been witheld from CPAC and the public since last fall. These are Dioxins and DDT and more to which we are all exposed environmentally.

Groundwater results for the two Varnicolor sites were promised to CPAC and the public last summer. where are they? You know both Chemtura and the M.O.E. that you don't have to wait until a CPAC meeting to hand out this data. There are things nowadays such as e-mail, and snail mail.

The ongoing and particularily bad off-site pumping over the course of 2011 should be on the Agenda. The pumping has been disgraceful and if that failure is not discussed at CPAC, it will be more disgraceful.

The BLE-25 spill from the fall of 2010 was supposed to be peer reviewed and brought to CPAC a long time ago. Shamefull!

The ongoing discussions (except publicly at CPAC) around Chemtura's proposed site wide certificate of Approval for Air have been backroom negotiated for several years now. CPAC and the public have been kept totally in the dark. CPAC please kick this idea and its' disgusting process to the curb ASAP.

The Responsible Care reverification at Chemtura seems to have become invisible. I've been hearing for months that they failed to pass and quite frankly that is appropriate. How about the long suffering public getting something official on this? Last but not least this item has been raised by me for about the last three years. DNAPLS 100' below ground at OW57-32R beside the Elmira water tower and just west of Varnicolor. Do not let Chemtura and the M.O.E. out of the room without them confirming the fact of its' existence and what they plan to do about it. Obviously they hope to continue to ignore it. DON'T LET THEM!

To date the six CPAC members have not had honest input into the Agenda. This may explain why appropriate items are not getting onto it. Chair and Mayor Todd Cowan has been advised before and will continue to be advised: CPAC is not a one man show, nor is its' process to be dominated by one man. Delegate before you destroy CPAC.