20,000 litres of sewage leaks into floodway
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An estimated 20,000 litres of sewage leaked into the Red River Floodway over about 4 1/2 days beginning last week.
City of Winnipeg employees noticed a discharge from a maintenance hole on the southwest corner of the parking lot at the drinking water treatment plant on April 12. The city began to investigate a potential leak in the aqueduct Monday and on Wednesday found a leak on the wastewater air release valve support pipe in the maintenance hole. The leak was stopped at about 11 a.m.
“The majority of discharge was collected by the water treatment plant’s land drainage catch basin and eventually discharged into the Red River Floodway,” the city said.
The city reported the incident to the province Wednesday.
The plant is located just east of Winnipeg.
