PARTIAL REASON FOR UNIROYAL/LANXESS ADMITTED FAILURE TO REMEDIATE ELMIRA AQUIFERS

The September 2020 Lanxess Progress Report has been released. Groundwater continues to leave the Lanxess property by design and intent on the north-west property line. Way back when, Crompton or Chemtura managed to convince the UPAC committee of the day that it was O.K. to allow that leakage via the shutdown of pumping well PW1. The claim was that it didn't matter as the contaminated groundwater would eventually flow back onto the Crompton/Chemtura site and be collected by either PW4 or PW5. Not coincidentally Pat and Susan were running CPAC at that time and unsurprisingly in favour of the company's plan. Now of course we know that that contaminated groundwater was also diffusing into the aquitards off-site which now is a significant reason for the guilty parties to be unable to achieve the 2028 mandated deadline as those contaminants eventually back diffuse from the aquitards back into the aquifers. ......................................................................................................... What the September Progress Report confirms for us is that the pump and treat system is failing on at least two fronts. Firstly the on-site pumping well PW5 continues not to achieve its' Target Average pumping rate and secondly off-site well W9 which was supposed to be a major upgrade to the off-site pumping (13.6 l/sec) is still holding its' own at ZERO litres per second. All this of course is in relation to the long repeated Chemtura promises (Nov. 2012) of a TRIPLING of off-site pumping being necessary to achieve the 2028 deadline for cleanup. Yes the current off-site pumping rate with W9 at ZERO l/sec is slightly higher than the usual off-site pumping rate in 2012 but nowhere near either TRIPLE or DOUBLE. ................................................................................................. Why are citizens still sitting and talking to these lying a..holes? This is why CPAC (2011 - Sept. 2015) were adamant that both Chemtura and the MOE had to start being honest with them and the public. This is why we took no prisoners when we caught them deflecting, delaying and obfuscating. Public consultation is meaningless without good faith discussions and we were constantly shocked by the chutzpah, bulls..t and blatant drivel that they were peddling.