A CPAC WITHOUT CHEMTURA & WOOLWICH ARE AN HONEST CPAC

CPAC continues without needing to directly deal with their least honest former elements. This would include Woolwich Township, Chemtura Canada, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Councillor Mark Bauman. CPAC was formally known as the Chemtura Public Advisory Committee. Now they are known as the Citizens Public Advisory Committee. Their mandate is to advise, advocate and assist in all environmental issues surrounding the Chemtura property (& more) in Elmira, Ontario. CPAC have continued being involved with public meetings (RAC & TAG) dealing with Chemtura's and the M.O.E.'s environmental failures, obfuscations and misrepresentations to the public.

To this end CPAC have examined the East Side Soil & Groundwater Investigation report recently released. It was done contrary to the advice and direction given by CPAC. Clearly Chemtura and their partners in pollution, the M.O.E. wish to continue to deceive the public. There has been a thirty year plus coverup of the nature and extent of the contamination both on and off Chemtura's property. The release of toxic liquid wastes onto the neighbouring property to the east has been documented in various reports since the 1980s with absolutely nothing proper being done about it.

This report while worthwhile in general, still adheres to the coverup, deny and minimize formula that made Conestoga Rovers & Associates so popular with Chemtura. GHD, the new incarnation of CRA, are on a similar track. So many common toxic chemicals were either not tested for at all or tested for at ridiculously high detection limits (MDL) so as to reduce the chance of detections. Volatile Organic Chemicals (VOCs) and Petroleum Hydrocarbons (PHCs) are two examples of such toxic groups of chemicals that are found throughout the Chemtura property.

The other game they played was in avoiding testing either soil of groundwater along a 160 metre stretch of their eastern border. This is the stretch of Chemtura's property line closest to the Stroh Drain as it heads due south on its' journey through the Martin swimming pond (by diversion) and into the Canagagigue Creek. This avoidance of testing is so incredibly blatant and obvious on the Figures attached as part of this report. There literally is no surficial soil testing, no subsurface soil testing and no groundwater testing in this discharge point for both surface and groundwater leaving the Chemtura site.

The conclusion of GHD that their investigation proves that Dioxins/Furans and DDT are solely contained in the top six inches of soil is totally bogus. Their sampling points have zero scientific validity and credibility. Their number of samples are even more biased. They on behalf of their clients are doing what they've always done which is to attempt to save millions of dollars with a superficial cleanup that is more cosmetic than functional. Obviously a six inch "cleanup" versus a six foot cleanup or more will do little for the environment but wonders for their bottom line. And so it's always been with this site.