[Newsbot]

Title: B.C. storm causes sewage overflows in Greater Victoria
Category: Health
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2015-11-13 21:38:55
Canadian

[BeaverFever]

Does this mean Victoria is Montreal's new sister city?

[ShepherdsDog]

Bellingham will love it

[Hyack]

Bellingham lives on shit like this.....the place is a sewer at the best of times....

[Jabberwalker]

Montreal's is a one time dump to solve a problem. They used to dump all of their sewage into the lower St.Lawrence, hence to the ocean up until the early 1980's, though.

Victoria has gotten away with it, up to now. Time is probably running out on the dumping of raw sewage into the ocean, except in an emergency.

[Hyack]

Not justifying it, but Victoria has been able to get away with dumping their sewage directly into the Pacific because it is by most standards nothing more than a large town with it's population of only approximately 350,000.

[Jabberwalker]

Hyack Hyack:

Not justifying it, but Victoria has been able to get away with dumping their sewage directly into the Pacific because it is by most standards nothing more than a large town with it's population of only approximately 350,000.

Halifax is the same size but they got around to treating sewage. The difference, I suppose is the nature of the harbour. Halifax harbour is narrow, goes deep inland and ends with a dead end. The tide doesn't completely flush it out and some of it comes back up, each cycle.