As we all know, wastewater affects the health of rivers and streams. So we went to the source, behind the scenes at the Jean-R.-Marcotte wastewater treatment plant, which treats almost all of Montreal's wastewater!
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.
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