Grand Splash de Batiscan - Sunday, August 18 at 11 a.m.
August 16, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Batiscan, August 16, 2024 - The first edition of the Grand Splash de Batiscan, organized by Fondation Rivières and
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Batiscan, August 16, 2024 - The first edition of the Grand Splash de Batiscan, organized by Fondation Rivières and
The Bayonne River is too precious not to ensure the proper performance of its wastewater treatment facilities in Sainte-Élisabeth. Wastewater was discharged into the Bayonne River for 10 consecutive days in August 2022 by the municipality of Sainte-Élisabeth, when the river flow was minimal, and the hydraulic treatment capacity of its wastewater treatment plant was exceeded by some 25 %. On the other hand, the plant's current operating conditions provide excellent overall wastewater treatment performance. This is what our analysis of the situation has brought to light.
One hundred people jumped into the river at the Old Port of Montreal for the traditional Grand Splash, an initiative of Fondation Rivières to demand a harbour bath at the Jacques-Cartier Basin and new swimming access around the island of Montreal.
In this Water Month, Fondation Rivières and the City of Chambly release the results of a 2nd study revealing that water quality in the Chambly basin has very good potential for dry-weather swimming. The results of this portrait of microbiological water quality in the basin pave the way for new, environmentally-friendly uses of the river.
Grand Splash au Vieux-Port de Montréal 2024: pour un accès public à l’eau du fleuve Saint-Laurent
Did you read Ariane Krol's article published in La Presse on June 9, 2024? Her dossier, Tensions sur fond de sable blond, brilliantly documents the case of the Batiscan beach and establishes for good what we've been trying to communicate for a year: the shoreline is public. The littoral is the shoreline that is dry once the water has receded after the great spring floods or tides. It's called the high-water mark or littoral limit. The Ministry of the Environment has confirmed that it has not ceded the littoral and that it takes precedence over any transactions or demarcations made by riparian owners. In very rare cases, some river and lake beds are privately owned, but these exceptions date from the distant past.
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