CHEMTURA & THEIR CONSULTANTS AFTER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY FINALLY TELL THE TRUTH - M.O.E. STUNNED

FOUR YEARS AGO THEY ADMITTED THEIR CURRENT COURSE WAS DOOMED TO FAIL. THEY PROMISED TO TRIPLE THE PUMPING OF GROUNDWATER IN THE ELMIRA AQUIFERS AND DO SOURCE REMOVAL OF HOT SPOTS. LAST EVENING THE PUBLIC WERE ADVISED THAT EVEN WITH THEIR ENHANCEMENTS ELMIRA'S DRINKING WATER WILL NOT BE RESTORED BY 2028.


Since the early 1990s Chemtura (Uniroyal Chemical) and their consultants, Conestoga Rovers (CRA), have been categorically stating that they would restore Elmira's Aquifers to drinking water standards by 2028. No ifs, no ands and no buts. When challenged by citizens and experts they have assurred all that they knew exactly what they were doing. We have been told year in and year out that so many kilograms of contaminants such as Ammonia, NDMA and Chlorobenzene have been removed from the aquifers under Elmira. We have been told that the numerous contaminant plumes are all shrinking and that pump and treat technology is the only way to go.

CPAC along with both external and internal experts confronted both Chemtura and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment in the spring of 2012. We told them that their pump & treat (ie. hydraulic containment) technology was not good enough on its own. They along with Conestoga Rovers repeatedly and emphatically said we were wrong yet six months later suddenly reversed themselves in November 2012 with their new cleanup program for the Elmira Aquifers. For nearly four years they have been upgrading treatment systems, adding new pumping wells and messing up tests for source removal (In Situ Chemical Oxidation). They actually haven't pumped one extra gallon of contaminated water to date.

THEY HAVE BEEN BLOWING SMOKE, LYING AND DECEIVING ELMIRA CITIZENS FROM THE START.

They will now continue to do what they do best. With enabling from the M.O.E.C.C. and Woolwich Township Council they will put spin on this. They will give a new date and once again promise, honest Injun, to do their very best. They will moan about their "state of the art" cleanup being comprimised by new technical information that nobody ever heard of before. Their cleanup has never remotely been state of the art. The "new" technical information relates to back diffusion from aquitards leaking into the aquifers. It's been known for decades. CRA with political help from the province and most especially from Woolwich Township for most of the last thirty years, have done the cheapest and least possible, all for the financial benfit of their client Uniroyal/Chemtura.

Informed citizens such as myself and others have been ignored, belittled and slandered by professional liars, both private and government. This intentional program has been done to lessen our credibility and to allow money, power and influence to have their way. We have advised honestly and from a strong knowledge base as to what needed to be done here. With the exception of the 2010-2014 Woolwich Council we have been stymied primarily by our own local politicians. This includes three on our current Council namely Murray Martin, Sandy Shantz and Mark Bauman. The last two especially have coddled Chemtura and bent over backwards to do their bidding. This is the direct result.