Wastewater sewage that has been spilling into the Hamilton Harbour for approximately 26 years is an “anomaly” incident and the environmental impacts will likely be “relatively small,” a city official says.
“Knowing that something like this could happen for that duration without us knowing about it doesn't make any of us feel good,” Director of Hamilton Water Nick Winters said at a news conference Wednesday morning.a sewage leak into the harbourThe leak was discovered at the northeast corner of Wentworth Street North and Burlington Street East and has gone undetected since 1996, the city said.
As a result, 39 properties have been flushing directly into a storm sewer leading into the harbour. The city initially reported yesterday that 50 properties were affected. Winters said it is believed that when the watermain project was being conducted, there was an addition made to create a hole in the combined sewer and into the storm sewer based on an inaccurate drawing of the project by engineers.
“Do we need to put in different programs to look for anomalies within our system? It would be difficult for me to stand in front of you and say that that's not the case,” he said.Ever since the discovery, the city said crews started working immediately to rectify the situation.
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