IT NEEDS TO BE ASKED: HAVE CHEMTURA & LANXESS INTENTIONALLY FAILED OVER THE LAST EIGHT YEARS TO ACHIEVE THEIR OWN PROMISED PUMPING RATES?

Last Friday here in the Advocate I suggested that at times their results have been so poor for so long that I suspected that it was intentional. Keep in mind that the promise to TRIPLE the off-site pumping rates was given in November 2012 and has never even come close. Not by a country mile! Nor have they even DOUBLED their off-site pumping since then. Again not even close! Eight fricken years later! So are they beyond all imagination incompetent to the extreme or has the failure to follow through been on purpose? ............................................................................................................. I am currently looking at the August 2020 Progress Report. Off the Lanxess site pumping is close to 58 litres per second which would have been wonderful from 1998 until 2012 if they had been achieving that. Unfortunately they were not. While the Target pumping rates have changed over time, back then they were about 53 litres per second (all off-site pumping wells). They regularly did not achieve that old pumping rate. ..................................................................................................................... Allegedly Conestoga Rovers and Chemtura independently determined that they needed to both TRIPLE their off-site pumping AND utilize a form of source removal known as ISCO (In Situ Chemical Oxidation) to be able to succeed in restoring the Elmira Aquifers to drinking water standards by 2028. They have done neither and they haven't even come close to either. By the way their independent determination occurred approximately six months after CPAC and then Woolwich Township announced that 2028 cleanup wasn't going to happen under the current remediation. ............................................................................................................ Now Lanxess want to co-opt TAG (Technical Advisory Group) into legitimizing new goals. Lanxess want to get the intentionally powerless citizens committee to however endorse the company's new direction. This has been and always will be the purpose of citizen groups in Woolwich Township: i.e. give advice to be ignored when inconvenient and to be embraced and publicized when convenient to the local establishment including Uniroyal/Lanxess. ...................................................................................................................... P.S. The public in Elmira and Woolwich Township have been horribly ill served by the local newspaper's (Woolwich Observer) refusal to cover either public TAG meetings or public RAC meetings in the last five years. This is exactly how the MOE/MECP/some Woolwich Council members/Lanxess/GHD have been able to get away with their crap. They are flying under the radar and shame to the Woolwich Observer for permitting that.