CHEMTURA CANADA APRIL 2014 PROGRESS REPORT

Well this is very odd. Chemtura have picked up a hit in the Canagagigue Creek of bis ethylhexyl pthalate (BEHP) namely 3 parts per billion (ppb). The Provincial Water quality Criterion is .6 ppb. This reading would not remotely surprise if it was at the downstream end of Chemtura but it was at the upstream monitor namely SS-110. Well, well, well. The auto wrecking yard, Bolender Park landfill, the factory on the west side of Arthur St. beside the "Gig"; somebody let enough solvent go to easily register downstream. Is this a one off or did Chemtura just get "lucky" with the timing of their sampling. Never fear our Ontario M.O.E. are on the case, undoubtedly (LOL). Those eagle eyes never miss a thing unless so ordered.

Page seven brings us the interesting news that pumping well W4 is capturing groundwater from the Municipal Upper Aquifer. This is also clearly indicated on Figure D.2. The problem is that we've been verbally told for months at CPAC that W4 has been reconfigured and is now only pumping from the Municipal Lower Aquifer. Also page 3 tells us in Footnote 5 that W4 only pumps from the ML Aquifer. Come on Conestoga Rovers get your shit together!

Table E.1 has the 2014 eastern Creekbank groundwater monitoring results. Of interest is both the colour of the groundwater as well as the odours associated . They range from brown and orange groundwater to no odours to strong odours. Finally the Turbidity of the groundwater is interesting. It ranges from 158 NTU up to 999> NTU. As a comparison tap water is usually at 1 NTU or less. Also of great interest to me is the location of some of the most polluted creekbank groundwater. Well OW141-2 is downgradient from RPE 5 and has brown coloured groundwater with the highest Turbidity (999>). Well 0W151-2 has light orange coloured groundwater with a strong odour. Well OW98-5 is cloudy with a strong odour. These last two wells are both downgradient from GP1 as well as the further north eastern pits but because CRA would never lie or deceive we are supposed to believe that this has absolutely nothing to do with upgradient gross groundwater contamination.

Now we get to page nine and a very brief discussion surrounding GP1 & 2. We are advised that CRA/Chemtura's scraping of one foot of highly toxic soil from GP1 and capping of both pits last summer requires a little do over. This do over has to do allegedly with three out of sixteen unacceptable soil samples taken last summer after "remediation". The work will take a week and be done in late summer when the area is the driest according to their "Plant Activities Summary for April, 2014". Each of the three areas will be excavated from a 10 metre X 10 metre area for a total of 300 square metres. Notice there is no mention of depth. I am confident that it will certainly entail at least 2.54 cm or one inch in depth at a minimum. Nothing is too onerous for this *Responsible Care company. Also we are not advised as to the results of any of these sixteen samples nor the location. Again public consultation is a one way street at Chemtura's self serving discretion. Something stinks about this so called "voluntary" remediation last summer followed by this work this summer that Chemtura has "elected" to do. As usual the public advisory committee as well as private citizens are being given the mushroom treatment by both Chemtura and the M.O.E..