Another Sewage Leak

Post by **Todd B.** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:49 am

Another sewage leak was in the news this morning.
http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/20 ... 6-sun.html

It's these "human error" spills that the city gets fined for. I'm sure the city can expect to receive yet another fine from the province....only to passed along to us tax payers.

Post by **Hookup** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:52 am

This is insane.

Post by **almontefisher** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:08 am

Well they did install a lock & chain so this would not happen again

Post by **bm_attar** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:23 am

almontefisher wrote:Well they did install a lock & chain so this would not happen again

I assure you, the lock IS waterproof

Post by **Panfisher** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:06 am

I don't know about the rest of you, but this really discourages me from fishing downstream on the Ottawa.

I think I will limit myself going as far as Victoria Island, as it is close to where I live. I will be practicing catch & and release.

This is shameful in 2009. Unfortunately, it is not limited to Ottawa. At this moment there are millions of dollars being spent in Toronto to clean up their sewage system.

Post by **Carmine13** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:50 pm

never eating a fish out of the ottawa again! its to many times now up strem down stream across steam not eating them. hope the people who pour the raw seuage in there read this

Post by **Todd B.** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:01 pm

Oh, and don't forget the other 117 million Litres that was dumped due to the rains we had last week.

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/20 ... 62556.html

Post by **Hookup** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:15 pm

Obviously what get's me is this idea of placing a fine on a government body... honestly, who's kidding who here? Fine a government agency and either services go down (lack of money) or taxes go up (pay for the fine)... or the fine was insignificant and nothing changes. So exactly how does that fine accomplish anything?

The most obvious effect, or lack there of, is this entire sewage problem/issue. Which really isn't an issue, otherwise it would stop. I think that at least 2 public servants should be abused if it happens again. No fines, no apologies, just take the two candidates and abuse them by shoving long over sized probe like objects somewhere. Maybe a Cadillac as an example.

I'm not being crazy, or unethical. Obviously we have to be consistent and fair on how we chose the two people who are going to get "abused". It would be completely unfair if it was random and we all want a society with rules. In this case we would need to look for someone who might have said this will never happen again... after the last time... Or we might want to pick a city council member who would be responsible for say sewage/waste systems...

I supposed we could do something along the "punishment fits the crime" line of thinking and make each of the responsible parties drink 1 liter of this raw sewage for each and every event. But I'm in favor of the repeated and painful abuse method as it has more "sticking power" that you just won't forget no matter how many hot showers you take...

/rant-off

Post by **bruce** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:49 pm

abuse em all from the top on down,we need a revolution ! canadians are sheep!gulp! gulp!

Post by **joco** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:11 pm

insane for sher.

it will never change just a bunch off..%$?&%$&(% people that are in the higher places that dont guive a.

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man i hate them.

joco

Post by **beachburger** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:19 pm

And we're about to find out what 11,000L of fuel dumped into a river looks like.....

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/20 ... 66816.html

EDIT : Make that 20,000L.

Post by **shore finder** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:57 pm

A few months back I heared a city councelor on CFRA say to the effect that the sewage leaks do not include solid waste (feces, toilet paper ect) that stuff is imidiatly filtered from the sewage, but would be remaining liquid and some sewer (rain water) discharge. That is why it always seems to happen when we have a heavy rain. Like that makes it better. Also the last few sewage spills that have happened, the story in the paper will say a "contractor" left the line open. The city is passing the buck IMO.

Also I hear that after that time in '06 that no one reported it, and the city manager got fired, now they report EVERYTHING. so we hear about it more often. Apparently too Aylmer dumps a whole bunch more than we know about.

As for the Fuel spill. well I guess we can just scoop the dead fish off the top... eh? That sucks big.

Post by **plncrzy** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:21 pm

I think that its quite pathetic that the Capital city of Canada is dumping sewage into a river in this day and age.... whoever was on city council back in the day when it was decided to postpone needed upgrades, should be made into fish bait!

Post by **Bobby Shimano** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:45 pm

And I kinda feel bad about peeing off the side of me boat...

Bob

Post by **Wallyboss** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:46 pm

They are full of it if they say that no solid waste makes it to the river. During our clean up a couple of weeks back we must've picked up 100's of tampon applicators. Firstly I don't know why they would get dumped and flushed but they were all over the place. How would the City explain that.