Friday, July 23, 2021

A LITTLE MORE ON THE JUNE 2021 PROGRESS REPORT

Table B.1 ...."Storm Water Outfalls-these used to be called MISA (Municipal Industrial Strategy for Abatement) outfalls. Regardless these are surface water drains from the Lanxess (Uniroyal) site that discharge into Canagagigue Creek. Following are the names of Uniroyal chemicals and their concentrations continuing to discharge into the creek to this day. ............................................................................................................ 2,4-D .........3.15 ppb....................................................................... Carboxin ......6.9 ppb....................................................................... Diphenylamine..3.06 ppb.............................................................................. Lindane ...... .11 ppb....................................................................... Toluene ...... .28 ppb....................................................................... ................................................................................................................ Table C.2 ...Comparison of upstream Canagagigue Creek water with downstream (below Uniroyal/Lanxess)...................... ................................................................................................................... Two chemicals are higher downstream than upstream and those are NDMA and Toluene. Neither are a surprise. .......................................................................................................................... However five chemicals have higher upstream concentrations than downstream and that should be a surprise.................. ........................................................................................................................... The five are m/p Cresol, 0-cresol, NMOR, TCE and xylenes. These speak to allegedly "unknown" upstream industrial sources. There isn't that much upstream from Uniroyal/Lanxess.

2 comments:

  1. More data is needed as last two paragraphs concern me. Multiple samples should be taken right up to the dam.

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  2. Our authorities (Woolwich, Region, MECP) have known about other sources of ground and surface water pollution in Elmira for decades however exposing them would 1)take away from the focus on Uniroyal 2) expose our authorities' negligence and incompetence as so many industries got away with gross pollution for so long.

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