{"id":8571,"date":"2015-10-02T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/?p=8571"},"modified":"2023-01-16T13:19:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:19:40","slug":"debordements-degouts-a-montreal-les-justifications-ne-sont-aucunement-convaincantes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/debordements-degouts-a-montreal-les-justifications-ne-sont-aucunement-convaincantes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewer overflows in Montreal: The justifications are in no way convincing"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRESS RELEASE
\n<\/strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n

Montreal, October 2, 2015<\/strong> \u2013 The City of Montreal failed to convince the Fondation Rivi\u00e8res of the merits of its decision to discharge a third of its sewage from the Island directly into the St. Lawrence River<\/a> for one week, starting October 18. At most, the City presented the context of the work: the abandonment of the Wellington snow chute to relocate it to an access point on Riverside Street.<\/p>\n

The comments made during today's press conference give rise to further concern. Unable to name the municipalities that draw their supplies from the river that would be affected by the plume of contamination, the City could nevertheless assure that they \u201cwould not be affected\u201d. However, five municipalities would receive sewer discharges directly into their water intake: Varennes, Verch\u00e8res, Contrecoeur, Lavaltrie and Berthierville.<\/p>\n

The question of diverting the water during the work was dodged by mentioning that it would cost 1 billion $ if we doubled all the piping on the Island!<\/p>\n

The City has not made any \u201cintelligible\u201d document available: absence of report, plans for locating overflows, explanations on the nature of the \u201cwork\u201d, etc. The authorization obtained from the Ministry of Sustainable Development, the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change was not provided and the Ministry was absent from the press conference.<\/p>\n

The Fondation Rivi\u00e8res further considers that the City has not identified all possible measures to reduce impacts, such as temporary water pumping, a temporary pipeline or the use of specific construction methods. Nothing indicates the cost of such mitigation measures, nor indeed the cost that this mega-pollution would cause, the effects of which will remain for years and extend to the Lac-Saint-Pierre Biosphere Reserve. of UNESCO.<\/p>\n

-30-<\/p>\n

For informations :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alain Saladzius
\nPresident
\n514 924-2013
\npresidence@fondationrivieres.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Read the full press release<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press release - The City of Montreal failed to convince Fondation Rivi\u00e8res of the merits of its decision to discharge one-third of the Island's sewage directly into the St. Lawrence River for one week, starting October 18. At most, the City presented the context of the work: the abandonment of the Wellington snowfall to relocate it to an access on Riverside Street.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,37,40,51,79],"class_list":["post-8571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communiques","tag-adoptez-une-riviere","tag-deversements","tag-eaux-usees","tag-fleuve-saint-laurent","tag-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}