Talk of sewage and salt

Should the city's environmental priority be Light Rail or sewage control?—that is the issue in the local news at the moment.

It's raining today and the city's water pipes will be in full use, draining dirty water from the salted roads. What goes down the drain is a subject of hot debate, with the Ottawa Riverkeeper website publishing their opinion on the matter in their blog and on their news page.

"According to Ecology Ottawa, the city discharged 417 million litres of sewage and rainwater into the river in 2011. That’s enough to fill 166—wait for it—Olympic-sized swimming pools. People may differ on whether LRT or the Ottawa River is the city’s main priority, but I think we can all agree it’s time to come up with a new gigantic unit of volume."