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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...
- Lessons of Elmira's water crisis painful, costly - The Record
It was 25 years ago this month that Elmira residents learned...
- Lessons of Elmira's water crisis painful, costly - The Record
It seems to me that they're already doing that but then tossing the drinkable water away and then saying the aquifer still has contaminated water... Today, Lanxess estimates that approximately 95 per cent of the NDMA has been cleaned out of the aquifer.
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 · NDMA or nitrosodimethylamine, a chemical known to cause cancer, liver and lung damage, and death in test animals, was detected in extremely high amounts in Elmira’s aquifer in November 1989. The town’s water was shut off and citizens subsisted on bottled. water until a pipeline to Waterloo’s aquifer was built.
Nov 5, 2014 · It was 25 years ago this month that Elmira residents learned chemicals from Uniroyal Chemical Co., the town’s largest employer, had contaminated their once bountiful and pristine water...
Jul 11, 2024 · Bryant, who in November 1989 was then juggling raising a family while teaching English night classes at Renison University College at the University of Waterloo, had been concerned about the chemical plant before the contamination triggered what became known as the Elmira Water Crisis.
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In late 1989, 17 years after production stopped, Elmira was obliged to shut down its water supply because of the discovery of high levels of dangerous chemicals in the aquifer that flows under the town.
