In 2015, it’s hard to imagine that a fully developed city in North America would be willing to dump billions of gallons of untreated sewage into their waters. Well… it’s happening. Starting on Wednesday, the Canadian city of Montreal will begin releasing nearly 2.1 billion gallons of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River. City officials claim that there is no alternative in the matter, as the sewage must be released in order to complete construction of a new highway for the city.

Although I have no engineering background and little information on this story, I wonder if there truly were no alternatives to this situation? It will be interesting, and probably unsettling to see what the environmental impacts of this decision will be.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/montreal-sewage-dump-to-begin-wednesday-1447182904