By Joanne Chianello, Ottawa Citizen, July 17, 2014
When the provincial budget was tabled again earlier this week, Mayor Jim Watson
took the opportunity to remind us of how important the Ottawa River Action Plan
is to the environmental health of one of Canada’s great rivers. And fair enough.
In the past few years, improvements through ORAP — which is actually a series of
17 separate if related projects — has seen 80 per cent fewer pollutants flowing
into the mighty Ottawa. But the best-known part of the river cleanup plan is
still to come. That’s the $195-million project where the city, with equal
funding from the provincial and federal governments, builds giant underground
storage tanks in the downtown area that prevent raw sewage from spilling
untreated into the Ottawa River. via
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