THE LYING B... - OOPS MAKE THAT THE TRUTH CHALLENGED, PARENTALLY CHALLENGED, CREDENTIALLY SUCCESSFUL, SELF-SERVING SODS HAVE DECEIVED US ALL ALONG

Sorry about the suspense. Last Friday I posted here in the Advocate with the title "Chemtura, M.O.E. & CRA Have Long Known THAT 2028 Cleanup Wasn't Going To Happen". That posting brought us right up to the edge of the title without clarifying it. Well here it is.

I knew that I had long publicly stated that "The Cleanup is a Sham". I had long stated that the on-site hydraulic containment of the Uniroyal site was a failure. Then at last in May 2012 the new CPAC put forth a Resolution which was endorsed unanimously by Woolwich Council stating that the 2028 cleanup absolutely could not happen with Chemtura/CRA's current reliance on outdated, inadequate and minimal off-site pump and treat technology. David Marks, hydrogeologist with Burnside & Assoc.and a CPAC member, in conjunction with Dr. Gail Krantzberg of McMaster University advised both that hydraulic containment and or pump and treat was inadequate on its' own and discredited south of the border and that contaminant source removal or destruction was necessary to achieve drinking water criteria by 2028. The three partners in pollution all howled in protest. Then six months later in November 2012 they rolled over and brought out their new plan which still relied upon hydraulic containment/pump & treat but with a twist. They were going to TRIPLE the volume of off-site pumping and treating. Of course they had not thought it through as tripling the volume of off-site pumping and discharging into the Canagagigue Creek had ramifications and consequences. These included dewatering the Municipal Aquifers. This could result in land subsidence in Elmira. Also there were issues with a new Certificate of Approval which would have to be much more strenuous based upon a tripling of the quantity of treated water being discharged into the creek. Hence this face saving attempt, pretending to be initiated all on their own irrespective of CPAC and Woolwich Township's Resolution was a non-starter from the get go. The proof is in the pudding.

Fast forward five years. Late October 2017 and the "NEW" off-site pump & treat system is in operation. These new wells to date include W9 and W6A/B. That's it so far. The new wells started in June of this year with W6A/B first then followed by W9 in July. The pumping rates for the W6A/B wells have been a miniscule .4 litres per second up to a Niagara Falls (Not!) 1.0 litres per second. W9 has pumped at a more respectable 10 to 11 litres per second for July and August and then down to 2 litres per second in September. Shocker they're having problems with their upgraded treatment system. Shocker! (again not really). Hence the groundwater pumping rates have increased from approximately 60 litres per second to a whopping 72 litres per second, total off-site pumping in all off-site wells. By my math that's not triple or double or even close. We do await however more wells coming on-line unless of course they've unilaterally decided to let those slide. Hard to say with the current pretend "public consultation" whereby the best informed, most honest citizens are refused the right to even ask the credentialed professionals questions at public meetings. It's never been a better time to be a credentialed professional though. Apparently weaker minds on Woolwich Council are more impressed with credentials than they are with strict adherence to old fashioned principles such as honesty. Ahh but then they are politicians afterall. Keep in mind TAG has some excellent individuals as members such as Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach whose soil and groundwater knowledge has soared over the last seven years.

I have recently reviewed old newspaper clippings around December 2001 and early 2002. Specifically there is a write up in the Elmira Independent on March 28, 2002. The writeup quotes Wilf Ruland extensively and it also has an Editorial by the Editor, Gail Martin. This is an example of why I tolerated Wilf for as long as I did. He actually speaks out strongly and honestly in regards to Conestoga Rovers "Optimization" Plan. He is highly critical of it including suggesting that the goal is the Optimization of money spent by Chemtura, plain and simple. He also states that on-site containment at Uniroyal/Chemtura has been poor for a long time and that the on-site Chemtura property will not be free of contamination within the next seven generations. Yes that's generations not years. Finally Wilf advised that the quantity of contamination on the Uniroyal site has long been seriously underestimated. Similarly the off-site extent of contamination has also been underestimated by Conestoga Rovers.

Gail Martin in her March 28, 2002 Editorial mentions these facts as well as the huge consequence of all these underestimations and other errors some of which have only come to light even more recently courtesy of Dr. Richard Jackson. Both Wilf and Gail spell out the consequences. The Elmira Aquifers will not be remediated to drinking water standards by 2028. While CPAC were the first environmental body to state this publicly in 2012; in fact Wilf and Gail Martin did the same in early 2002. Now of course the partners in pollution (Uni/M.O.E./CRA) all denied it vociferously then as they later did in 2012. It's only over the last couple of years that the M.O.E and Chemtura/Lanxess are finally willing to tell the truth and admit that the 2028 cleanup isn't going to happen. That makes them proven truth challenged and parentally challenged bodies in my opinion. As I've long said!