Raw sewage - Into the ocean it goes still....
By Sissygrl
@Sissygrl (10909)
Canada
September 3, 2009 9:04am CST
Halifax sewage plant faces year of downtime after spill
A power outage Jan. 14 allowed seven million litres of raw sewage to flood the $54-million plant and damage electrical systems.
Untreated waste has been flowing into the harbour since the plant shutdown.
The sewage treatment plant was opened in the fall of 2007. Bacteria counts in Halifax harbour plummeted, allowing the municipality to reopen three public beaches last summer for the first time in decades.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/04/15/ns-sewage-update.html
So for decades, the city of Halifax has been dumping raw sewage into the harbour. For decades they talked about getting a sewage treatment plant. Then they decided to get one and i'm sure it took close to another decade for them to decide where to place it/them. And possibly another 5 years or more to actually start/finish construction. The plant worked for 2 years, and then of all things.. a POWER FAILURE takes out the plant.. who would have thought.. living in halifax where we have hurricanes and severe wind storms every season, the power would have gone out?!
We have one of the deepest harbours in the world.. but how much more poop and other things that people flush down teh toilets can our harbour take? it really smells down there on the waterfront.. i want to smell the ocean when i walk down the boardwalk, not sewage!!
Does anyone else think this is crazy ? my friends in ontario thought i was lying when i told them halifax dumps raw sewage into the ocean and has since it became a city.. approximately in 1841!! THAT IS A LOT OF POOP!!
halifax wiki- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Halifax
A power outage Jan. 14 allowed seven million litres of raw sewage to flood the $54-million plant and damage electrical systems.
Untreated waste has been flowing into the harbour since the plant shutdown.
The sewage treatment plant was opened in the fall of 2007. Bacteria counts in Halifax harbour plummeted, allowing the municipality to reopen three public beaches last summer for the first time in decades.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/04/15/ns-sewage-update.html
So for decades, the city of Halifax has been dumping raw sewage into the harbour. For decades they talked about getting a sewage treatment plant. Then they decided to get one and i'm sure it took close to another decade for them to decide where to place it/them. And possibly another 5 years or more to actually start/finish construction. The plant worked for 2 years, and then of all things.. a POWER FAILURE takes out the plant.. who would have thought.. living in halifax where we have hurricanes and severe wind storms every season, the power would have gone out?!
We have one of the deepest harbours in the world.. but how much more poop and other things that people flush down teh toilets can our harbour take? it really smells down there on the waterfront.. i want to smell the ocean when i walk down the boardwalk, not sewage!!
Does anyone else think this is crazy ? my friends in ontario thought i was lying when i told them halifax dumps raw sewage into the ocean and has since it became a city.. approximately in 1841!! THAT IS A LOT OF POOP!!
halifax wiki- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Halifax1 response
