UPCOMING LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS

Tomorrow evening at 5 pm. the Remediation Advisory Committee (RAC) meets in Woolwich Council Chambers. To be discussed are the new and long overdue expansion of the off-site pump & treat system. This apparent increase in pumping of the Elmira Aquifers is supposed to somewhat make up for the lack of pumping over the last nineteen years since off-site pumping belatedly started in the summer of 1998 nearly a decade after the drinking wells were shut down. A sense of urgency has never been a hallmark of Uniroyal/Crompton, Chemtura and now Lanxess.

Increased pumping however is admitted to be inadequate to have the Elmira Aquifers at drinking water standards by 2028. Therefore tomorrow evening they will also be discussing Technology Evaluations. Note not new technologies but well tested and established technologies that could have and should have been used decades ago. In Situ Chemical Oxidation (ISCO) is but one that is being considered. It was ruled out in the past both due to me being the first to present a Delegation to CPAC on it (2008) as well as it being tested very poorly by Chemtura/CRA around 2014. This poor testing is as per Dr. Richard Jackson.

Another upcoming local environmental event is my third Delegation to Council next Tuesday at 7 pm. Most Councils might have clued in by now that their handling of methane gas at the Bolender Park Landfill has been inadequate for decades and they are playing Russian Roulette with people's lives and property. Not so our local group of geniuses. This upcoming Delegation is titled "New Developments and Information regarding the Bolender Park Landfill". The single communication I have received to date is a brief e-mail from Sandy Shantz a week ago last Monday in which she advised me that a "review" was being done of my August 22/17 Delegation. She also advised that it was scheduled to be completed by last Friday and that I would receive a copy of it. Still nothing! Either it's very late or Council are embarrassed to release it which I find a tad surprising.