Ontario’s minister of the environment said Hamilton, Ontario must audit its entire sewage infrastructure and create a remediation plan after the city revealed it discovered sewage has been leaking into Hamilton Harbour, which is part of Lake Ontario, for the past 26 years. Read the full story by CBC News.
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