Sewer networks: how does it work?
June 17, 2022
Les réseaux d’égouts nous sont invisibles… jusqu’à ce qu’ils ne le soient plus! Vous avez en effet certainement déjà vu des bouches d’égout de grands
Les réseaux d’égouts nous sont invisibles… jusqu’à ce qu’ils ne le soient plus! Vous avez en effet certainement déjà vu des bouches d’égout de grands
Every spring in Quebec, melting snow causes the combined sewer systems to overflow. Result? Untreated wastewater ends up directly in rivers! Here are 3 actions you can take at home to help reduce wastewater overflows.
Saguenay anticipates that the construction of a new pumping station near the Consol site this summer will prevent 80 to 85 % of wastewater overflows into the Baie des Ha! Ha!.
Press release - Seven new mayors sensitive to environmental issues have been elected in Quebec's seven largest cities. Longueuil, Saguenay, Laval, Quebec City, Gatineau, Terrebonne and Sherbrooke alone are home to half of Quebec's population, and are responsible for 42% of the total intensity of wastewater spills in Quebec, as demonstrated by the dismal 2020 wastewater spill chart.
Press release - We unveiled our 2020 Palmares last week and, unfortunately, a mistake was made in the manipulation of our powerful, but oh so complex, database. Our calculations in terms of spill intensity are rigorously accurate, but it's in expressing this intensity in terms of population numbers that we made the mistake.
Press release - For the second year in a row, Fondation Rivières has released a tool that lets you discover the list of municipalities that stand out in terms of the intensity of their wastewater discharges in 2020. It has also updated the interactive discharge map on its website with the new 2020 data, revealing that there were almost 53,000 wastewater discharges last year in Quebec.
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