City water courses meet their end
The city was obliged to decontaminate the Meadowbrook stream in the old golf course of the same name. But in making sure no sewers drained into it, they also shut it down completely. This stream, the remnants of the old St‑Pierre river that used to join the St Lawrence at Pointe‑à‑Callières, is now definitively dead.
Meanwhile in Dorval, tunnels being dug for the REM have been determined to be the cause of a sudden emptying of the remaining wetlands north of the airport. Although no promises had been made to preserve this area, it’s a well-known wildlife sanctuary which citizen groups were determined to protect.
Max 16:48 on 2021-09-16 Permalink
That’s a shame about the Meadowbrook. I wonder if it was storm drains or actual sewers or both that fed the stream (so many people don’t appreciate the difference).
Am I the only person who chuckled at the “couleuvre brune” reference?
Kate 22:03 on 2021-09-16 Permalink
Max, the item does say the Meadowbrook smelled bad sometimes because of sewers emptying into it upstream. It wouldn’t have taken too many households to stink up a small stream like that, especially on hot days when it hadn’t rained for awhile.
Update: Global writes here as if the sewage problem has still not been fixed, but it gives more detail about how sewage ends up in that stream.