MARCH 2021 LANXESS PROGRESS REPORT

While generally the same nonsense over and over again, nevertheless here are the "highlights" from this monthly report. Literally several years have gone by while Lanxess fools around with their major pumping well W9 located behind the former textile factory on Park St., very close to Union St. and to the former municipal landfill known as M-1. So many decades of professional lying from so many "experts" and QPs (Qualified Persons) makes understanding the truth intentionally difficult even when they choose to speak honestly. Regardless we are now advised that the Wigen Technologies have begun fabricating what is known as a "piping tree" and will have it completed by June 2021. Lanxess and GHD alegedly are devloping a detailed construction schedule "...with a focus on limiting off-Site well downtime." How on earth are we supposed to believe that when to date there has been absolutely no focus on them achieving promised off-site pumping rates in the past? ................................................................................................................................ Table A.2 advises us that chlorobenzene is on-site at pumping well PW4 at 2,840 parts per billion (ppb). It is interestingly off-site at pumping well W8 (west side of Nutrite/Yara) at 3,070 ppb. Interestingly chlorobenzene is even after primary treatment (carbon absorption) at 206 ppb still well above the drinking water standard of 80 ppb. Toluene is also at 205 ppb after carbon treatment. NDMA is well above Ontario Drinking Water Standards (ODWS- .009ppb) off-site at pumping well W5A (1.3 ppb), W6B (2.7 ppb) and at well W8 (54.03). So much for ongoing bragging about how low the concentrations of contaminants now are in the Elmira aquifers. ..................................................................................................................................... Table A.5 advises us of the Effluent Limits, among other things, for discharge into the Canagagigue Creek after treatment. Many of these Effluent Limits are far too high including NDMA with a ODWS of .009 ppb having an Effluent level of .140 ppb. 1,1 Dichloroethane and chlorobenzene both have discharge Effluent Limits of 10 ppb with many other chemicals Effluent Limits being between 2 and 7 ppb. ........................................................................................................................ Table A.6 shows various concentrations of contaminants in groundwater on the Uniroyal/Lanxess site and includes Toluene and Aniline with concentrations in the thousands of parts per billion as well as chlorobenzene in the high hundreds of parts per billion. ............................................................................................................................ Table C.2 shows surface water reults in the Canagagigue Creek and compares upstream arithmetic means with downstream arithmetic means. Oddly according to this Table there are eight different chemicals with higher arithmetic means upstream than downstream and three with higher concentrations downstream than upstream. This speaks to both the so called background values upstream not being far enough upstream and as well to upstream sources of these chemicals such as Phenol, Cresol, NMOR, Benzene, Chlorobenzene, Toluene and Trichloroethylene. The three chemicals with arithmetic means higher downstream than upstream are NDMA, Lindane and Toluene. Interesting! ......................................................................................................................................... All in all a toxic watse site that remains so and with the blessing of local and provincial authorities will likely remain so for the next few centuries.