Give credit where credit is due. Month after month Lanxess have to make up excuses why they are failing to make their own consultants (GHD) recommended Target Rates (pumping). They are failing with both on-site pumping which is to prevent loss of former Uniroyal Chemical contaminants to the off-site Elmira Aquifers and with off-site pumping which was supposed to pump and treat already contaminated off-site groundwater under Elmira, Ontario.
The January Progress Report is stunningly bad. GHD has recommend for decades that Lanxess pump AT LEAST 4.7 litres per second in order to maintain hydraulic containment on the Uniroyal/Lanxess site . They pumped all of 1.6 litres per second during the month of January 2025. The company and their pathetic regulator, the Ontario MECP, also are recommended by GHD to pump 65 litres per second of groundwater under the off-site Elmira Aquifers and they only managed a tiny 41.1 l/second.
These reduced pumping rates have been going on for years although the pumping deficits have been increasing over the last few years almost coincidentally as Lanxess and the MECP have thrown in the towel regarding achieving drinking water standards in the Elmira Aquifers by 2028. Who the hell gave them permission to do that? They should be getting off their fat behinds and working harder to achieve thier decades long commitments to Elmira citizens, not less .
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