Posted by tower_060
Im not some fucking dumb ass that believes everything thats posted on the stupid internet. I've had enough jobs to have first hand experience and have enough friends that are all over the career chart to find out the facts v.s fictional bull shit ( and yes that is how i know about the shit in the water, since my buddy manages the engineering firm that does the testing for most of ontario).
This is only true when there hasn't been a rain at all in the last 48Hr. I can't remember the stutistics, but the plant beside marie-cirtus can only handle so much. Thats why they starting to rebuilding the treatment plant were the leash free park was.
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I work as an engineer (albeit not a civil engineer, but you do learn a few things along the way). moreso, I've spent hundreds of hours underground exploring 50+ drains, sewers, culverts, tailraces, CSOs over the past few years. I'm not an expert like some of the members here, but I do know a thing or two about this stuff.
Its very very obvious when a drain has been tainted by illegal sanitary connections (pieces of toilet paper, tampons, chunks of shit), and I can say from firsthand experience they're few and far between. I can only name a few "storm" drains where sanitary contamination has been evident. Not to say it doesnt happen, but its a lot more rare than you may have been lead to believe by your "expert" friends. The fines for doing so are severe and illegal connections are remediated once discovered.
Sewers do occasionally get backed up and overflow into streams, but the city is VERY quick about fixing them once they find out about it.
I discovered this sewer overflowing into cooksville creek, told a friend who is an engineer for the city of mississauga and within 2 days they had a crew onsite to fix the problem and clean up the bank.
and sewers become even MORE dilluted during or after rainfall. When its raining, the sewage content drops even further than it would in dry weather because of the additional stormwater entering the system. Sewers are most rank when they're only accepting waste from industrial and sanitary connections. The treatment plant in jack darling park (where the dog park used to be) is actually a drinking water treatment plant, and the construction on it was planned years ago and was fast tracked in part because of the economic action plan, not some emergency need to alleviate sewage overflows in the city.
oh, and for the record, other than the risk of drowning in a flash flood, draining isnt any more dangerous than exploring any above ground location. Ive never once gotten sick from going into a sewer. if anything, I'd say its helped develop my immune system to the point where I rarely get sick at all.
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