37% of Sewers Drain Into Lakes and Rivers Untreated

I live on the east coast of Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia, located right on the Atlantic ocean. It’s not a big city, but as recently as this summer it was dumping raw sewage into the harbor. Granted, there was a problem at the sewage plant, but the plant was only opened fairly recently. It’s alarming that in this day and age waste is being dumped into oceans, rives and lakes untreated. While the harbor here looks clean, I for one wouldnt want to swim in it, and I’m sure they fish that do aren’t terrible healthy.

As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater. That has contributed to sewage backups into more than 400,000 basements and spills into thousands of streets, according to data collected by state and federal officials.

On the bright side, at least I’m not this guy…

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November 27, 2009 by Clive Mathias

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7 Comments on “37% of Sewers Drain Into Lakes and Rivers Untreated...”

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  • avatar Woody
    2 years, 2 months ago #

    That’s Shit!

  • avatar Clive Mathias
    2 years, 2 months ago #

    yeah, literally!

  • avatar Gerry Hartley
    2 years, 2 months ago #

    Man….that is unreal.
    NASTY

  • avatar Chuck Adams
    2 years, 2 months ago #

    Actually, it’s in Minnesota, on an interstate, I beleive. It’s NOT SEWAGE, it stormwater, which in that area is not mixed with human waste.

    So while run-off from streets, parking lots and years can be polluted by trash, oil, tire dust, etc., it’s not the really bad stuff, like industrial and human waste…

  • avatar IceFishingPro
    2 years, 2 months ago #

    HA!
    I laughed so hard at that one.
    Quite the shitsplosion!
    ha ha ha.

    Justin
    link:http://www.icefishingpro.com/

  • avatar Brad Orcutt
    2 years, 2 months ago #

    I live in Ottawa and every week this year there were new articles in the local newspaper about raw sewage flowing into the Ottawa river. The grand total for this year alone was over a billion litres of raw sewage. Everytime it would rain there would be a sewage overflow. The sewers can’t even handle the population now as it is yet the city is continuing to grow rapidly. Something has to be done about this before our water systems are destroyed forever.

  • avatar Simon Graham
    2 years, 2 months ago #

    Shit happens!

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