VICTORIA - Environmental groups are calling on the federal government to lay charges against the City of Victoria for dumping raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The Capital Regional District is the only major municipality in Canada that still discharges its sewage untreated.
The National Sewage Report Card gave the city an F-minus for that five years ago, and has now gone the next step and suspended the city.
Venton says both the United States and the European Union already have enforceable sewage discharge laws, but in Canada there are only guidelines.
http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_sewage20040908Just imagine this! It is 2004 and they are sending their sewage directly into the environment and they don't think there is anything wrong?
Vancouver Island is supposed to be so nice.
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