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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fisherman25" data-source="post: 77135" data-attributes="member: 393">[h=1]Five million litres of raw sewage leaked into Red River[/h]Andrea Slobodian , CTV Winnipeg  Published Wednesday, January 20, 2016 10:23PM CST Last Updated Thursday, January 21, 2016 6:36PM CST <table style='width: 100%'><tr><td><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td></td><td><img src="http://static.ctvnews.ca/bellmedia/common/img/share/facebook-icon.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></td><td></td></tr></table> </td><td><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td></td><td><img src="http://static.ctvnews.ca/bellmedia/common/img/share/twitter-icon.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></td><td></td></tr></table> </td><td><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td></td><td><img src="http://static.ctvnews.ca/bellmedia/common/img/share/google-icon.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></td><td></td></tr></table> </td><td><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td></td><td><img src="http://static.ctvnews.ca/bellmedia/common/img/share/reddit-icon.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></td><td></td></tr></table> </td><td><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td></td><td><img src="http://static.ctvnews.ca/bellmedia/common/img/share/share-icon.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></td><td></td></tr></table> </td></tr></table>The City of Winnipeg is reporting a sewage leak that sent up to five million litres of untreated waste into the Red River over the course of nine days.Craig Tulloch has a home on Glenwood Crescent that backs onto the river.He said, on Saturday morning, he went to the backyard and noticed open water near the outflow pipe on the river, something he thought to be very unusual as it was very cold that morning.He said he went down to the riverbank and even drove across bridge and to the park to get a closer look. Tulloch said that’s when he saw what looked like dirty water that had a film on it and a smell coming from it.He said the smell continued onto Monday night, when he noticed an odour in his home. Tulloch said he cleaned out all the garbages just in case the smell could be coming from them.By Tuesday morning the odour was still there, and according to Tulloch, it was much stronger and much worse. He said before he went to work, he took a trip down to the riverbank and noticed an extremely strong odour.That is when Tulloch called 311, more than once, to confirm the city was sending someone out to investigate.The city confirmed it received an inquiry about a “strong sewage smell” near St. John’s Park on Tues., Jan. 19, at 10:23 a.m.Instruments on site indicated the blockage may have been in place as of noon on January 10.A city crew found lumber partially blocking the opening of the diversion chamber, located upstream from the combined sewer outfall at 1 Fowler Street.Crews removed the lumber at 1:35 p.m. and restored full flow.Typically, the diversion chamber directs dry weather flow to the treatment facility and allows rain to overflow into the river. In this case, the blockage sent untreated flow into the river.The city said the incident did not trigger an overflow alarm as those are not set up to detect blockages in the openings of chambers, only within.The city has reported the incident to the Manitoba Conservation Accident Reporting line.The province said it will be following up with regards to the incident.- - - Updated - - -That's 1.3 million gallons.  ;:;boozer;:;barf;:;barf;:;barf;:;barf;:;barf;:;barf;:;barf</blockquote>

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