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Nov 28, 2018 · ELMIRA — A pair of documentaries exploring the contamination of Elmira’s water supply are in limbo after the new owner of the chemical plant at the heart of the story refused to give final ...
Nov 2, 2020 · Elmira has safe tap water, but it is not taken from the local aquifer. Experts say it will take many more years to rid the local groundwater of toxic chemicals Nov. 2, 2020
Jul 14, 2016 · Elmira has received its drinking water via a pipe from Waterloo ever since the 1990s, when its own wells were shut down due to contamination from toxic waste associated with the manufacturing of ...
Nov 2, 2020 · The town’s water was shut off and citizens subsisted on bottled. water until a pipeline to Waterloo’s aquifer was built. This is still the source of Elmira’s tap water. Since then, the aquifer has been undergoing treatment, but the status of the cleanup remains murky. Some background. The story begins in an old brick factory building ...
Jul 11, 2024 · The impact on the town, as well as St. Jacobs, which also drew from Elmira’s wells, was huge as 9,000 people were warned by the Ministry of Environment that it was unsafe to drink from their taps. For months, until a pipeline from Waterloo was completed, the main source of potable water in these communities was from fire stations.
When I came here from London in 1990, I was amazed at how Guelph tap water, bottled up in Nestle bottles, sold. I mean, bottled water is supposed to be for famines and emergencies! Then I tried the tap water and it all came so (un)clear. This article says in 1989 "Elmira’s groundwater NDMA levels ranged from 1200 to 2900 parts per trillion ...
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May 5, 2023 · Elmira, Ont. – The decontamination of the town’s aquifer is still a long way from meeting drinking water standards even though improvements are being made. The contaminants were discovered more than three decades ago, and the plume of Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) and chlorobenzene.contamination has decreased in size by about 60 per cent over the past 30 years.
