CITIZENS for a CLEAN HAMMONASSET RIVER(CCHR)

Information will be updated as acquired  

  • Unilever has been discharging industrial wastewater into Hayden's Creek for over 25 years.
  • The Clinton Health Dept. shows high levels of bacteria and industrial pollutants in Hayden's Creek.
  • Unilever is on a self- monitoring/self-reporting program to the Department of
    Environmental Protection (DEP) .
  • The DEP has not responded to documented concerns from the Bureau of
    Aquaculture for additional testing at the Unilever discharge in Hayden's Creek.
  • Unilever has not allowed Clinton Health Officials to access their property for water sampling.
  • DEP says Hayden's Creek can not handle the heavy metal discharges.
  • Unilever submits documents to DEP outlining 12 possible solutions for wastewater  disposal.  Discharge into Hammonasset River deemed least expensive.
  • The DEP solution to the Unilever discharge is to dilute the pollution with additional water from the Hammonasset River.
  • Up to 25,000 gallons per day of wastewater will flow through the pipe 24 / 7.
  • Proposed pipeline does not allow for any independent testing of wastewater.
  • Clinton Water Pollution Control Commission (WPCC) voted against the pipeline.
  • Neither the Towns of Madison and Clinton nor the public were notified by the DEP of this new discharge pipe to the Hammonasset River.
  • As of March 2005 the DEP has held up this "Pipeline Project" until further studies are complete.
     

  • July 2005 -DEP conducts further studies of Hammonasset River near the Stanley-Bostitch Plant in Clinton- north of Rte 1.
  • August 2005-The Unilever Corporation has made efforts to clean up the discharge to Hayden's Creek and to open communications with CCHR.
  • CCHR is positive about the efforts of the Unilever Corporation toward working with the Town of Clinton and a Municipal Sewage System that Unilever could use for their discharge.
  • Unilever has requested the DEP allow them to use Hayden's Creek, as they have for over 25 years, as a discharge point until such time as they can connect to Clinton's Municipal System.
  • DEP has not responded to this request as of October 2005.
  • CCHR has produced pictures of heavy metal and other pollutants leaching into the Hammonasset River from the Stanley-Bostitch Plant. These pictures have been presented to Commissioner Gina McCarthy of the DEP for her review.
  • DEP has charged the remediation department to investigate the pollution depicted in pictures provided by CCHR of the river at the Stanley-Bostitch Plant.
  • October 2005- Further studies of pollution from filled landfill areas and closed waste lagoons are being authorized by the DEP for the Stanley-Bostitch Plant.
  • DEP's permitting department has not reviewed Stanley-Bostitch discharge permit as of October 2005. Permit expired April 2005. Stanley-Bostitch continues to operate under old permit.
  • October 2005 Water Pollution Control Commission of Clinton proceeds with testing of property for potential Municipal Treatment System.
  • Unilever Corporation continues to discharge treated waste to Hayden's Creek under the old permit of 1999.

CITIZENS for a CLEAN HAMMONASSET RIVER
362 Durham Road, Madison, CT 06443
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