THIRD WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL NEGLIGENCE IN ELMIRA

The surrepticious diversion of ground and surface water from the most contaminated site in Canada onto a neighbour's property is illegal. Hiring of consultants to deny this has occurred is merely exacerbating one's guilt. Extorting, blackmailing or even merely influencing the provincial environmental regulator to back your illegal behaviour further adds to Chemtura's culpability. The Ontario Ministry of the Environment have long ago been comprimised and co-opted.

Knowing that your downstream neighbours are primarily old order Mennonites who will not sue you for health damages that you inflict upon them is scurrilous. Knowing that cattle, producing milk and beef, graze in the floodplain of your chemical sewer is without conscience. Knowing that there is a homemade in ground swimming pool using surface water from your surrepticious diversion is beyond the pale. This swimming pond uses water from the Stroh Drain to top up their pool when the groundwater level drops. The most vulnerable human population, developing children, are exposed to persistent organic pollutants via this route. Even our Ontario M.O.E. are guilty of this crime as they rubberstamped an "investigation" of this pool, falsely declaring there were no contaminant pathways.

Let there be no misunderstanding of the far reaching consequences of this coverup. Last May I was scouting for locations for a CBC Documentary regarding Vietnam and Canadian sales to the U.S. military. The instant I spotted the Stroh Drain I immediately knew this was all wrong. There simply should not be an unknown drain/creek of that size and significance beside the Uniroyal/Chemtura property that the public advisory committee was unaware of. Further claims by Chemtura and the M.O.E. that they were also unaware of it are nonsensical and miles beyond negligence.

While this east side diversion and coverup have ramifications affecting downstream users including Grand River users; it also affects the cleanup of the Elmira Aquifers. This of course has already quickly been denied by Chemtura's environmental engineer. Much of Chemtura's contamination has flowed vertically downwards and contaminated the Municipal Upper and Lower Aquifers. These aquifers flow from north-east to south-west towards the former south wellfield. This east side diverted contamination off-site has also flowed vertically downwards into those very same aquifers. From off-site to the east and south of Chemtura this contamination merely adds to the loading of both Municipal Upper and Lower Aquifers flowing beneath Elmira towards the south wellfield. This further unknown (hidden) contamination will result in even longer timeframes to ever cleanup via inadequate pump and treat technology.