Toronto residents should be alerted when sewage is being dumped into public waters, argues a legal request filed with the Ontario government Tuesday by Lake Ontario Waterkeeper.
The request was filed on the anniversary of last year’s widespread flooding, which resulted in 1.3 billion litres of sewage flowing into the Humber River and Lake Ontario over the course of 28 hours without residents being informed.
“We see it as a slam dunk,” Waterkeeper president Mark Mattson told DeSmog Canada. “We’ve never met anyone who thought it shouldn’t happen. If there’s a heat alert, you publish it. If there’s a smog (Read more…)