CHEMTURA CANADA JULY 2014 PROGRESS REPORT

Yesterday I posted about how disappointing the off-site pumping has been overall but especially June and July this year. As usual Chemtura/CRA have excuses/reasons galore but the bottom line is that their computer modelling used to state that both wells W3 and W4 needed to pump at 11.4 litres/second in order to allegedly achieve drinking water standards in the Elmira Aquifers by 2028. Since then they've significantly reduced their Target Rates and W3 is still at 11.4 but only achieved 5.7 last month and W3 is now at 3.5 and only achieved 3.1l/s. Pretty pathetic.

We are advised on page 6 of this report again that sometime this summer they will be excavating three 100 metre square areas (10x10)in GP1 and 2. This is based upon "analytical" data allegedly. Of course we the public have no idea which particular analytical data they might be referring to or even which of the two former gravel pits. Also we don't know how "deep" they are "excavating". Last summer it was all of one foot, twelve inches or 1/3 of a metre. Maybe this year they will "excavate" three or four inches. Anything to cheaply claim that they are responsive to CPAC and the public.

Table A.4 shows us why n-nitrosomorpholine (NMOR) is constantly above the Effluent Objectives when discharged to the creek after treatment. The raw groundwater is polluted at 1400 parts per billion (ppb) at pumping well PW4.

Again at least for the second time recently we have BEHP (bis ethylhexyl phthalate) showing up at the upstream end of the Canagagigue Creek prior to its' flowing through the site. Somebody currently or else past sins (eg. Bolender landfill) are showing up as a further reminder that everything you dump into the earth will move and spread.

Table D.1 is titled On-Site Routine Groundwater Monitoring. Once again we are treated with analytical results stating that DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) and its' metabolytes (DDD, DDE) are present in groundwater on site. This of course is very disturbing when we recall how many times CRA/Chemtura have advised us that DDT, like Dioxins, are hydrophobic and do not dissolve in groundwater. Chemtura and their partners in pollution love to play with words and twist meanings when they make outlandish claims. Meanwhile groundwater analysis shows both DDT (& metabolytes) and Dioxins are in groundwater. Whether they are "dissolved", in solution, partitioned , in suspension or whatever term you want, they are there and they can move with the groundwater. This decades long adherence to disproven theories and facts are one of Chemtura's most endearing qualities. Oops or did I mean enduring?