Linda was assigned that task on TAG years ago. She has likely done her best but frankly her expertise I believe is in Planning not in contaminant hydrogeology. Hence some better informed TAG (now TRAC) members should have either stepped up and assisted or taken over years ago. Now of course then TAG Chair Tiffany, who is a hydrogeologist, took no such actions. She left Linda to her own devices I believe without even pointing her in the right direction.
I've just finished looking at the April and May 2024 Progress Reports. Wow the groundwater contour lines for the Municipal Upper Aquifer are frankly horrid. As planned and premeditated the top half of Uniroyal's contaminated groundwater is flowing off-site en masse. No it is not all getting drawn back either on site (PW4 & 5) or off-site into say W5A/B. There is also leakage from the south end of the site. Of course the years long pumping failures at PW5 have exacerbated that problem. Finally which property owners on the west side of Elmira ever agreed to contaminated groundwater being allowed to leave the Uniroyal Chemical site and flow onto their property decades after the site had been ordered hydraulically contained?
Then we look at the failure to hydraulically contain the Upper Aquifer (UA) discharging directly into the Canagagigue Creek from the west side of the company. The May Progress Report admits serious leakage but Figure C.1 is a bombshell. Effectively the majority of the month had higher groundwater levels discharging Uniroyal contaminants directly into the Creek. Now the Creek water levels were also high hence so was the dilution factor. Yet again Lanxess in conjunction with the Ontario MECP are following the real game plan which is "DILUTION IS THE SOLUTION TO POLLUTION". That folks is the reality of the alleged "clean up" and "remediation" of the aquifers and Creek in Elmira.
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