City of Ottawa sewer overflow hits high mark in 2017

A massive volume of diluted sewage emptied into the Ottawa River from City of Ottawa sewers during a seven-month reporting period in 2017, but the number of times there was an overflow was at its lowest in recent years.
The city recorded 1.6 billion litres of liquid muck spilling into the river between April 15 and Nov. 15, a volume not recorded in the 12 years of data published by city hall. The closest the city has come to that volume was in 2006 when nearly 1.1 billion litres of diluted sewag