HERE ARE THE PUMPING RATES FOR THE UACTS OVER THE DECADES

 

Below is the e-mail I sent to Woolwich Council, Woolwich Observer and CPAC a few minutes ago. This is as close to a smoking gun I can provide short of digging up each monthly Progress Report and showing them the numbers.

                                        WOOLWICH COUNCIL                                  August 30, 2023

Following are some of the pumping results for the Upper Aquifer Containment & Treatment System (UACTS) over the last twenty plus years. The units are litres per second (l/sec) but when you multiply by 60 you get litres per minute and by another 60 gets you litres per hour. Pumping volumes as well as associated treatment adds up pretty quickly unless of course you bilaterally (Uniroyal/MECP) decide to keep reducing the volumes of shallow, highly contaminated water that you are pumping and treating.

Jan.   1997   2.41    l/sec        Jan    2000   1.81    l/sec       

July     “       1.69      “           July      “      2.67       “           

Nov    “       2.27       “           Nov     “      2.13       “           

Jan  2003   .88    l/sec

July    "     1.17      "

Nov    "     1.12      "

Jan   2006     .93     l/sec         Jan    2009    .9       l/sec        

July     “      1.04       “            July        “    .7           “        

Nov     “      1.12       “            Nov       “   1.0         “            

Jan   2012    1.0      l/sec

July     "        .9          "

Nov     "       .9           "

Jan    2015    .9      l/sec         Jan    2018    .8       l/sec         

July      “     1.1        “            July       “     1.0          “          

Nov     “       .8         “           Nov        “       .9          “          

Jan   2021   .7       l/sec

July     "      .5          "

Nov     "     .5          "

Jan    2022    .5      l/sec        Jan    2023      .2       l/sec

July      “      .4         “           July       “        .4         “

Nov     “      .2          “

This data is in the corresponding monthly Progress Report produced by Conestoga Rovers (CRA) and later on by GHD on behalf of Uniroyal / Crompton / Chemtura / Lanxess Canada. Council if you ask the MECP or Lanxess or GHD for copies of these specific monthly reports in order for you to confirm the volumes of groundwater pumped they might supply them unless they complain that you've already got them. Please do NOT delegate this confirmation job to any third party because too many Councils have been spoon fed horse manure on this file for far too long. Confirm the accuracy of these pumping numbers first hand. Then ask for any documentation sent to RAC/TAG/CPAC or other stakeholders (public etc.) over the years explaining the rationale for these major reductions while there still are unremediated pits, ponds and lagoons plus DNAPL on site. By the way “decommissioned” means closed to new chemical wastes, not remediated.

Sincerely Alan Marshall