Three possible cleanups: 1) Elmira groundwater is an abject failure. Neither NDMA nor chlorobenzene nor likely benzene, toluene, MBT, chlorophenols etc. have been reduced to drinking water standards much less zero. 2) The downstream Canagagigue Creek cleanup after more than fifty years of study and research hasn't even started. 3) On-site i.e. the former Uniroyal site remains a toxic pigpen. DNAPLS both free phase and residual remain. Both liquid and solid wastes permeate the soils and groundwater in places fifty to seventy-five feet deep. Some former waste pits and ponds were removed but not excavated below where the waste sat in unlined pits and ponds . Even later on lined pits leaked downwards estimated at 3,400 litres per day by CH2MHILL, the Region's consultants. All of this crap eventually (centuries?) will migrate off site into our aquifers, soils and Creek and Grand River.
Thank you Ontario MECP, Uniroyal/Lanxess, Woolwich Township and Region of Waterloo for your decades of whitewash and greenwash.
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