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Dec 18, 2021 · ELMIRA — The going is slow, but it’s going. Both Lanxess and the Technical Advisory Committee chair provided a year-end update on the cleanup of the Elmira aquifer and the Canagagigue creek...
Dec 28, 2023 · Staff have carried on treating water from the aquifer, but the province’s deadline will not be met. Now, Lanxess and the Ministry of the Environment are asking for public input on the scope and content of a new control order.
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.
Jul 14, 2016 · Chemtura says its computer model now shows something a concerned citizens’ group has long claimed – that it won’t meet its target date for cleaning up Elmira’s drinking water.
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 supply.
May 19, 2023 · Elmira, Ont. – Cleanup of a contaminated aquifer here is progressing, but one well site has a problem with chlorobenzene which is used as an industrial solvent, and it’s on the rise. The issue of contaminated groundwater first came to light in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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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.
