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The Saint John, New Brunswick harbour cleanup is an Infrastructure project that will bring an end to the practice of discharging Raw Sewage into the waterways of Saint John, New Brunswick , Canada . The $88 million initiative involves completing a third Wastewater Treatment Plant in east Saint John, and diverting existing outfalls to it through lift or pumping stations. Currently the initiative is awaiting full funding announcements from the municipal, provincial and federal governments. Saint John currently discharges 16 million litres of raw sewage into its harbour and streams every day. This is equivalent to six Olympic-sized swimming pools every 24 hours. The practice has been going on in Saint John for hundreds of years. Although Saint John is not the only municipality in Canada that dumps untreated wastewater into its environment, it is unique in that its outfalls flow into local Streams , forming open sewers that run through the center of the city, thus creating third-world sanitation conditions in Canada’s oldest incorporated city. Canadian Guidelines suggest that waters with counts of greater than 200 fecal study also found the fish in the waterways are contaminated with components from the raw sewage, making handling them another human health risk. Added to the human health risks are the unsightly personal hygene products (tampons, condoms, toilet paper, etc) that are strewn across the beaches and hang from the vegetation along the shoreline. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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