• Nathan Howes, Oakville Beaver

 writes about sewage treatment upgrades in Oakville on November 3, 2011:

The plant captures all of west Oakville’s wastewater, north to the QEW, and then discharges to Lake Ontario. It will be able to handle up to 45 million litres of wastewater per day and is one of only seven sewage treatment plants in Halton.

“This used to be an area where our basements would flood on a regular basis. We had to deal with that and, certainly, with the overflow to the lake from time to time. It was something we didn’t want to see,” said Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn.

“I think the changes that are being made here are something that is quite substantial.”

“We take it for granted when we turn on our taps, when we flush our toilets — all the things we do on a regular basis, (and) we just thank God that somebody out there is doing something,” he added.

Flynn said projects like this allow the government to correct some of the past mistakes regarding water treatment.

Read the full story via InsideHalton Article: Taking steps to clean up Lake Ontario water.