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Action at the King's Mill Park landfill
There's action at the King's Mill Park landfill!
Monday was the first chance we've had to take the Angus Bruce up the Humber River since it arrived in Toronto. Imagine our surprise when Mark Mattson and I rounded a bend in the river just after 6:00 and saw mounds of gravel, city trucks, and a backhoe on site.
It was almost exactly one year ago that we took our first samples from the old landfill site, which was (and still is) leaking contaminants into the Humber River. When rain falls, two things happen:
Dead fish litter beach, sewage saga nears half-century mark
Over the past few weeks I've been trying to understand why the city of Kingston has for years continued to dump untreated sewage directly into Lake Ontario. In order to try and understand the issue I went back and read every Kingston Whig-Standard article on the topic from 1955 till the present day; and while the city has come a long way, I'm not convinced that the city is doing enough to protect the safety of those who use the lake for swimming, boating, fishing, rowing, and of course, for drinking.
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