Since the Halifax waste treatment plant failed in January, more than 100 million litres of raw sewage has been discharged into Halifax Harbour daily. Worse still, last month the screens at the sewage outfalls were removed, so the sewage includes lots of “floatables,” the toilet paper and tampon applicators that rise to the surface. Is […]
Sewage
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Halifax council’s secret sewer fixes
The electronics used to run council meetings—microphones, the computer that queues up speakers, the overhead “Elmo” projector, etc.—haven’t worked properly for at least two years, and the system has been ridiculously broken over the past month or so, with some mics not working at all, councillors dropped on and off the speaker system randomly, etc. […]
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Just in time for tourism season: floatables in Halifax Harbour again
CBC: First a sewage treatment plant failed, and now the Halifax Regional Municipality is giving up on attempts to screen out solids from flowing into the harbour. About 80 million litres of wastewater has been flowing into Halifax harbour every day since January, when a sewage treatment plant malfunctioned and flooded following a power outage. […]
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Harbour Solutions solution
To the editor, For more than a month, millions of litres of untreated human and industrial sewage have flowed into Halifax Harbour every day. The resulting stench is a stark reminder of the $332 million spent on the inadequate, accident-prone Harbour Solutions Project. The chronically malfunctioning main plant doesn’t even meet federal requirements. It’s simply […]