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I walk most lunchtimes and pass the pumping station at the corner of Inglis and Barrington street, I think I could safely retire with all the $$ that has been spent on trying to get this pumping station fully operational.
— senile
This article appears in Apr 2-8, 2009.
6 Comments
whats a pumping station?
If only it was next to the mayor’s office.
And when does it rain 30mm or more? Pretty much every time it rains here. That is the max the system can take before it has to dump raw sewage. Same on the north shore. So instead of an eco system that is somewhat able to digest a consistant amount of raw sewage each day- it is starved and then flooded with disastrous consequences.
Did you know that Fenwick, Queen and Inglis and Barrington were all paved and painted and only days later they started another contract to upgrade all the conduit across the city and dug it all right back up again.?
Hang ’em high and then take ’em for a swim.
oh TTFN, you missed a golden opportunity there…. Jane set you up perfectly. pumping station….. oh well…
call me crazy… but if there were a roof or tent or canopy over the fucking thing, wouldn’t it not get so much rainwater? or did they build the thing in a fjord or something?
After all the rain these past couple of days, the sandbags are already out to protect the underground parking on the apartment building across the street (Peninsula Point). They should stake the Mayor out in the road and let all the sewage wash over his useless carcass.
His Solution to the Harbour Solution; hire even more consultants……
Holy SHIT Batman. We’ve been pumping raw filth into our beautiful, ice free harbour (it’s ice free because of all the steaming piles of shit pumped into it, nice the way the city has always spun that one huh?)for over 250 years. Why cant we just accept that it is what it is, the worlds biggest fucking toilet. The government has been talking about cleaning it up for years, and all their half ass attempts, are just that, half assed. Kinda like the Sydney Tar Ponds. I say take all these blowhard politicians and make em either live on a housebout at the mouth of one of the sewage pipes in the harbour, or give em some prime real estate on the tar ponds, and see what happens. Bet they REALLY try to clean them up then. Seriously, I hope we are holding whatever dumbfuck engineering firm and contractor that designed and built these sewage treatment plants to some kind of a penalty clause for non performance (oh yeah, we probably forgot to have something like that added to the contract). And once again, Haligonians and Bluenosers in general bend over the pickle barrel and take a big fatty up the poop shoot for the team. Jesus Christ what the fuck is the matter with this province? Why is everything done ass backwards? Like the saying goes, we should at least get kissed before we get FUCKED!!