HIDING CONTAMINATION AT UNIROYAL (CHEMTURA)

Recently I noticed some Time versus Concentration graphs in a number of Annual Monitoring Reports produced by Conestoga Rovers on behalf of Chemtura (Uniroyal). Some much older ones included chemicals such as aniline, carboxin and more while the more recent ones focused upon NDMA, chlorobenzene and ammonia. For at least the last decade or more that is the norm as the Ministry of the Environment has permitted the company to focus on three chemicals which allegedly represent groups of larger contaminants in the groundwater. The reality of course is that they do no such thing. In fact after I compared a number of specific on-site wells and their chemical results from twenty years ago and longer it became clear that only looking at NDMA, Chlorobenzene and ammonia grossly underestimated the quantities and concentrations of chemical pollutants in the groundwater. The following chemicals routinely greatly exceeded the concentrations in groundwater of the routine three parameters. The chemicals are aniline, carboxin, MBT, chlorophenol, trichloroethylene, dichloroethylene, phenol and toluene.

Elmira's and Chemtura's groundwater is a witchs' brew of manmade toxic chemicals disposed legally or otherwise by chemical companies for the financial benefit of their shareholders, to the detriment of human beings and wildlife, under the nose of well paid, incompetent and corrupt Ministry of the Environment personnel. You reap what you sow.