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.
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Toilets are not garbage cans! Nothing should be flushed down the toilet except toilet paper. And especially not
In August, a citizens' committee from the city of Varennes informed us that the city had undertaken a
to allow the construction of a housing project in the Parc Saint-Charles, by
along the Saint-Charles River.
Fondation Rivières would like to propose the beginnings of a solution to the observed increase in the number of wastewater overflows into watercourses, which rose from 43,000 in 2013 to 62,000 in 2017.
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