CHEMTURA'S CURRENT PROJECT TO CLEAN UP THE ELMIRA AQUIFERS

Chemtura are currently studying appropriate locations for installing both off-site monitoring and pumping wells. These are in support of their "Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Model Update" Report dated November 2012. This report, despite Chemtura's claims to the contrary, was in response to both CPAC's and Woolwich Township's vote of no confidence in their twenty plus year "cleanup" plans. This vote of no confidence, as I call it, was actually the CPAC Resolution, later endorsed by Council, produced just over a year ago.

CPAC had produced a couple of pages of questions for Chemtura dealing with the proposed In Situ Chemical Oxidation as well as the tripling of the off-site pumping. To say that Chemtura were reluctant to answer these questions in a public CPAC forum was an understatement and I found it quite unsettling. Jeff Merriman did briefly verbally respond when Ron Campbell of CPAC and myself insisted on a response. In hindsight I now better understand why Jeff and company were reluctant. They are hell bent on promoting their non public, Chemtura chaired and Chemtura invited "technical meetings" on their site versus in Woolwich Council Chambers.

By the way the answers to CPAC's questions do not inspire confidence. One of the biggest questions CPAC had, dealt with all the problems Chemtura have had over the last fourteen years in keeping their off-site pumping at and below their targeted rates. Verbal assurances from Chemtura that now they will be able to maintain pumping levels three times higher, simply aren't worth the paper they aren't written on.

Adding to Chemtura's credibility problems are their ongoing games. This includes "do over" *Responsible Care verifications and their attempts to give credibility to members of the old and discredited CPAC who had supported their inadequate and ridiculous pump and treat "cleanup". Chemtura are playing games and trying to remove this latest cleanup version from public scrutiny, under public control at public CPAC meetings in the Woolwich Council Chambers. Yet they still pretend not to understand why we don't believe them at face value. Try being open and transparent and that doesn't mean hiding behind their partners in pollution, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment.