Cities urge federal leaders to wade into wastewater debate | CBC News
often, Toronto tells people they should never swim off the city’s
beaches for least two days after it rains.
Across the country in
Mission, B.C., a three-decade-old pipe that carries sewage under the
Fraser River to a treatment plant in Abbotsford is so loaded operators
can’t even slip a camera inside it to look for damage. If that pipe
bursts, it will dump 11 million litres of putrid water from area homes
and businesses into a critical salmon habitat every day it isn’t fixed.
While
climate change is dominating the environmental conversations leading
into the federal election campaign, politicians who show plans to stop
the dumping of toxic, feces-laden sludge into Canada’s waterways will be
very welcome, particularly by the municipal governments for whom the
problem is a daily fight.