CPAC REQUEST FOR ACTION JULY 2003

The document mentioned in the headline above was a groundbreaking, long overdue response to both the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (M.O.E.) and to Crompton/Uniroyal's failures to get on with source removal of toxins on their site. This document was mentioned in last Saturday's posting here on the Advocate. Unknown to myself ten years ago, the M.O.E. and Uniroyal had pulled off an elaborate bait and switch scheme. They signed a Settlement Agreement (Oct. 7/91) between each other a month prior to issuing a public Control Order (Nov. 4/91). The public Control Order stated that DNAPLS and other buried wastes were to be removed as contaminant sources from the Uniroyal site. Unfortunately the private Settlement Agreement now known as the "sweetheart deal" said the opposite and took precedence. It stated that Uniroyal had an indemnity ie. no liability for known contamination on their site. Thus it is incredibly hypocritical of both the M.O.E. and Chemtura to currently complain about alleged hostility from CPAC now when they took part in a scam and a fraud (bait & switch) for the purpose of deceiving CPAC and the public.

This July 2003 Request for Action lists eight locations which require remediation and or removal (excavation). Number 2 (GP1 & GP2) is scheduled for only partial completion this fall or late summer. Number 8 which is excavation of all locations with high dioxin levels on the east side has been partially fulfilled. Number 5 dealing with a dry channel and island in the creek was actually completed a number of years ago, quite sucessfully. Number 1 involves fencing off the downstream floodplain areas from local cattle. I believe there has been some progress only on that front.

Therefore there has been a total of one totally sucessfully completed remediation out of eight to date. The rest have either been ignored or subjected to pretend investigations by Chemtura. These areas are of no surprise to anyone. The M.O.E. publicly admitted via the Nov. 4/91 Control Order that there were DNAPLS requiring removal beneath the west side ponds. To date little or nothing.

By the way there were a few select members of the public who were tipped off that Uniroyal had an Indemnity for known contamination on their site as of 1991; but they chose to keep that information to themselves.