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24th February 2015, 05:50 AM
British Columbia dumps over 34 million gallons of raw sewage, pesticides and pharmaceuticals into the Pacific every day
February 24, 2015
(NaturalNews) More than 34 million gallons of raw sewage is pumped off the shores of Victoria, British Columbia, into the Strait of Juan de Fuca daily, polluting the ocean and its ecosystem in ways that are poorly understood by researchers.
A report by The Tyee titled, "Victoria's Secret: Dumping Raw Sewage Like It's 1915," details the ongoing environmental crisis, noting that "British Columbia's capital is one of the last major cities north of San Diego to dump all of its untreated waste (including pesticides, street runoff and pharmaceuticals) into the ocean."
The problem isn't new either. Victoria has been pumping its poop into the ocean from Esquimalt's Macaulay Point for over a century, making very few improvements along the way. Exactly how far the waste is drifting is up for debate, with some experts reporting that the raw sewage is washing up past Howe Sound, all the way to the Sunshine Coast (map), a total of 150 kilometers.
"It's trackable, it's known and they've got maps -- the plume goes that far," said John Werring, science policy advisor for the David Suzuki Foundation. Researchers with the Capital Regional District (CRD), the local government administration of the southern tip of Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands in British Columbia, say they haven't "adequately measured" how far waste and chemicals migrate.
Raw sewage depletes ocean's oxygen, acting as a fertilizer for "red tide" algae linked to ocean acidification
According to CRD's environmental protection division, the vast majority of testing occurs within a few hundred meters of Greater Victoria's two major sewer outfalls, measuring a variety of things including heavy metals, bacteria, dissolved oxygen and hundreds more toxins -- but only a short distance from shore.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/048743_raw_sewage_pharmaceutical_pollution_British _Columbia.html#ixzz3Sfc7GSBr
February 24, 2015
(NaturalNews) More than 34 million gallons of raw sewage is pumped off the shores of Victoria, British Columbia, into the Strait of Juan de Fuca daily, polluting the ocean and its ecosystem in ways that are poorly understood by researchers.
A report by The Tyee titled, "Victoria's Secret: Dumping Raw Sewage Like It's 1915," details the ongoing environmental crisis, noting that "British Columbia's capital is one of the last major cities north of San Diego to dump all of its untreated waste (including pesticides, street runoff and pharmaceuticals) into the ocean."
The problem isn't new either. Victoria has been pumping its poop into the ocean from Esquimalt's Macaulay Point for over a century, making very few improvements along the way. Exactly how far the waste is drifting is up for debate, with some experts reporting that the raw sewage is washing up past Howe Sound, all the way to the Sunshine Coast (map), a total of 150 kilometers.
"It's trackable, it's known and they've got maps -- the plume goes that far," said John Werring, science policy advisor for the David Suzuki Foundation. Researchers with the Capital Regional District (CRD), the local government administration of the southern tip of Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands in British Columbia, say they haven't "adequately measured" how far waste and chemicals migrate.
Raw sewage depletes ocean's oxygen, acting as a fertilizer for "red tide" algae linked to ocean acidification
According to CRD's environmental protection division, the vast majority of testing occurs within a few hundred meters of Greater Victoria's two major sewer outfalls, measuring a variety of things including heavy metals, bacteria, dissolved oxygen and hundreds more toxins -- but only a short distance from shore.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/048743_raw_sewage_pharmaceutical_pollution_British _Columbia.html#ixzz3Sfc7GSBr