Businesses along the Lachine Canal were shut this week after a sewage collector overflowed. Business owners say the city's practice is costing them money. Photograph by: JOHN KENNEY, THE GAZETTEFrom The Montreal Gazette:
Summertime on the Lachine Canal: boating, cycling, ice cream - and fecal coliform?
Parks Canada ordered businesses on the canal to close Wednesday night after raw sewage from an underground collector overflowed into the historic waterway.
The city has been diverting sewage into the canal for years, and didn't stop when the canal reopened to recreational boating in 2002.
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