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By Robert Frank<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The City of Laval has acknowledged that it has been dumping untreated water into the Mille \u00celes River, whence the current carries the sewage downstream to the St. Lawrence River.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis often happens when rainfall or snowmelt overwhelms the city\u2019s sewers,\u201d Gilles Beno\u00eet, who heads the city\u2019s environment department, told\u00a0The Suburban.<\/em><\/p>\n

Benoit explained that most cities in Quebec face the same problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a water treatment system,\u201d he said, \u201cbut when water levels are high, our wastewater plants are unable to treat all the water. It\u2019s impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Higher levels of government have long been fully away of the problem, Beno\u00eet added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Quebec implemented its first wastewater treatment program, everyone knew that we would be unable to purify all rain runoff and wastewater and, by design, often when it rains we divert part of that water to the rivers,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have invested something like $25 million in the short term in Laval, and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and\u00a0Union des municipalit\u00e9s du Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>\u00a0are clamoring for billions of dollars for wastewater treatment,\u201d Beno\u00eet continued. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge undertaking on a Canada-wide level that aims to rebuild our infrastructure by 2031, which gives you an idea of the immensity of the work that this will entail.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted that the first phase of water treatment work has already paid off.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe already see the effect in terms of the ecotourism on the Mille \u00celes river,\u201d Beno\u00eet observed. \u201cNow we\u2019re in the second phase, which will permit us to go even further. We\u2019ve capped the amount that we dump in the river, and are working to reduce the volume as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The revelation was nonetheless starkly at odds with Mayor Marc Demers\u2019 uncompromising public stance against private pipeline firms during the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The Energy East pipeline] poses a safety hazard for Laval citizens, who have nothing to gain and everything to lose in terms of seeing their rivers and their land threatened by this infrastructure,\u201d Demers said, Sept. 30.<\/p>\n

However, in 2013, Beno\u00eet told\u00a0The Suburban<\/em>\u00a0that the stretches of pipeline that traverse Laval don\u2019t pose a direct threat to the Laval drinking water, because the city\u2019s water inlets are upstream of the crossings.<\/p>\n

Several gas and oil and jet fuel pipelines have crisscrossed Laval for more than a half-century, including the arteries that carry jet fuel to Dorval and Mirabel airports.<\/p>\n

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