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Getting fed up with hearing this
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:13 am
by TLunge
The city of Ottawa has spilled into the Ottawa river in the last month 50 million litres of raw sewage.
over the last weekend annother 6 million litres.
I cant believe this is happening, why havent they fixed this? what is the ottawa river keeper and others doing about this?
It is time to put a stop to this somehow, I dont think it will ever get fixed unless there is a huge outcry or backlash of some sort against it.
Is there any petitions or anything that have been started that I dont know about.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:26 am
by Wallyboss
It's disgusting that this hasn't been fixed yet. They are talking that it should be fixed by the Fall. That is just unacceptable. How many cities downstream from Ottawa take there drinking water from the Ottawa River????as soon as there is too much runoff in the sewers the excess gets dumped into the river. I guess that the fine that the City Of Ottawa got wasn't high enough. The money that the City recieves from the government to spend on infrastucture should be used to fix. But they have to repair the arenas first
Get the users to pay for that.
The Ottawa River should be a National Pride, but the way it is treated is far from that.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:28 am
by |D4|
I say we start a petition ?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:35 pm
by TLunge
I think we might have to go over the cities head, to some higher authority. I can just imagine some city employee seeing a petition, saying thats nice, and throwing it in the garbage. Maybe to the provincial or federal level.
Raw Sewage
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:36 pm
by Joey Rat
While no one likes sewage spilling into the river no one wants their taxes raised either.
I don't remember the amount but in the discussions around the big spill a couple of years ago I believe they were talking in the hundreds of millions to fix the problem. It's a major infrastructure problem.
Not saying it shouldn't be done, in fact it would be nice to see a plan even if it will take years.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:53 pm
by Andy_L
The Honourable John Gerretsen
Minister of the Environment
12th Floor, 135 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:54 pm
by Chewie
It makes me weep for humanity when we can't solve problems as severe as this. If anyone has any ideas on how to go about stopping this S@#T from polluting our beutiful Ottawa River let me...us know.
I don't think a phone call from a few of us to our city/member of parliament does much good. Perhaps an on-line petition? I'm no webmaster but if we have one on FH mabee we could get this rolling?
I don't have the answers but I'm willing to listen to suggestions.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:16 pm
by Todd B.
Unfortunately the Ontario Water Resources Act allows municipalities to bypass raw sew in a limited number of circumstances.
Bypasses
In emergency situations, the MOEE allows STPs to "bypass" raw sewage directly into Ontario receiving waters. The MOEE lists three situations that may justify bypasses.39 First, a significant increase in the amount of wastewater flowing into an STP during a storm or spring thaw may require a bypass to prevent basements from flooding when the sewers back up. Second, equipment breakdown and other operational problems in the STPs may require bypassing to prevent the damage of equipment at treatment works or pumping facilities. Third, when population and/or industrial growth exceeds the design capacity of the STP, bypassing may be necessary to prevent a washout of solids in the treatment works during storm events. In other words, when a storm occurs, a bypass allows for the quick removal of solids and speedy discharge of the wastewater to handle the large inflow into the STP and prevent the release of solid waste into the receiving waters.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:55 pm
by rodbreaker
I heard on the news today the city is looking at a "plan to monitor the problem"what a f'ing joke!!!Better to spend millions on a new bus lane going out to Kanata i guess?city is run by a bunch of mindless idiots that cant do anything right except tax us more and more each year
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:56 pm
by Bass Addict
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:11 pm
by bruce
let's just get a sewage tanker and dump it on a certain doorstep!
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:22 pm
by TLunge
Yes this should be priority 1 for the city, I just cannot understand why it is not.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:25 pm
by RJ
Here's reality for ya fellas......
This has been going on for years....MANY years.....it's just the media's prime target right now.....
In talking to someone who knows the situation very well....he informed me that the city had outgrown it's existing sewage system before it had even been finished in the neighbourhood of 20 years ago....and add in the development that has gone on in that 20 years to that already failing and overloaded system...
Just blows the mind to think that the Ottawa River can handle that for all these years and still be what it its today.....
RJ
P.S. Don't expect change either....the City is too busy trying to figure out which Sports Team to allow to come to our fair city.....why bother?....both are ghey and will fail horribly....
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:40 pm
by Wallyboss
I know a good name for the soccer team.
How about the Sewer Greats!!!!! or grates.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:59 pm
by Relic
bruce wrote:let's just get a sewage tanker and dump it on a certain doorstep!
That is the best idea I have heard in a long time.
Like RJ said, amazing the river is able to survive this, and that ANYTHING lives in it.
