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Kingston launches really cool sewage overflow alerts website
Kingston becomes the first municipality in Ontario to provide real-time alerts for sewage overflows.
Utilities Kingston unveils real-time sewage overflow monitoring and notification system
Today, Utilities Kingston unveiled a real-time sewage overflow monitoring and notification website. It is a great system designed to show the location of outflow pipes and report when they are discharging sewage. The system helps give important information to users while educating the public about the problems with combined sewage outflows.
Lake Ontario Waterkeeper Presents the Kingston & Wolfe Island Culture Festival
Wolfe Island, Ontario - the largest of the thousand islands - is one of Canada’s most cherished natural spaces. Sitting at the end of Lake Ontario and the start of the St. Lawrence river the Island marks both the entry and exit points for all five Great Lakes.
Toronto Harbour update: E. coli levels have dropped
After five straight trips resulting in off-the-charts E. coli levels, our most recent samples have come back with much better numbers.
Whatever happened to Toronto sewage alerts?
In August 2015, Waterkeeper announced that Toronto residents would soon receive alerts when wet weather sends sewage and stormwater into Lake Ontario. It’s now May 2017. It rained hard last week. Bacteria in the Toronto Harbour spiked. So what's happening? When can you expect to see those wet weather alerts?
Case Update: What’s happening in Toronto Harbour
Samples taken from Toronto Harbour this spring have been the "worst we've ever seen." Learn more about the results and just how much higher they are than accepted government standards.
Waterkeeper & Jack Johnson partner for "All At Once Tour"
The All At Once summer tour - hitting Toronto on June 4th - is designed to build community and promote environmental actions. In every city visited, concert goers get the chance to meet local non-profits supporting the tours environmental focus and discover how they can make change. The focus of this year’s tour is plastics pollution in our natural waterways.
Waterkeeper will be on site at the show on June 4th at the Budweiser stage hosting an information booth on microplastics pollution in the Great Lakes, and sharing the single thing you can do to help.
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