One day after the break...


   
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View, facing East, towards Eagleson Road, shows remaining sewage and ground water ...still draining into the Jock River.

This photo was taken at approximately 5:45 pm, on the 20th, when the pumping truck had just left.

 

  
         
 

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Same area as above, facing West, towards Richmond Village.

Before sewage flow was diverted to "Conservation Area", Lagoon Cell "C", all of it flowed directly into the adjacent Jock River.

This may have occurred for approximately five hours.

    
         
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View, looking North

Note close proximity of the pipe break location (in background), to that of the Jock River (in the foreground)

  
         
     
 

▲Raw sewage is being bypassed to Cell "C" of the "Conservation Area".  Obviously, with the inflow/outflow pipe located at the highest end of the, once-retired, lagoon, (making it impossible to recover solids), the city has confirmed its intention to proceed with this as a full-time, solids-retention, sewage works.

This is in violation of documentation the City
presented to the Ministry of the Environment,
to obtain its Certificate of Approval.
 

   ▲Leftover new pipe sections in foreground. The pipe ruptured at the location of the "Y" connector (where the twin pipes were joined into one again), on the North side of the Jock. The same pipe broke on the South shore of the River, in December '01...one month after it was installed.

The new, twin section of pipe, under the Jock, is a complete waste of tax dollars, since it is currently unconnected.

 

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