Focus on the Environment: The Ottawa River sewage scandal rocks the capital

A series of unchecked and unnoticed sewage spills has left city officials red-faced, citizens fuming and farmers once again pointing to a double standard

by DON STONEMAN

The local media in Canada’s capital call it “sewer gate” and the revelation that more than a billion litres of untreated sewage flowed unchecked and unnoticed, through a jammed gate on the city’s sewer system into the Ottawa River for more than two weeks in the summer of 2006 caused more revulsion and disgust than most political debacles on Parliament Hill. 

Better Farming - October 2008