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State Senator Patty Ritchie is calling on the International Join Commission (IJC)—the group tasked with protecting the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes—to investigate the City of Montreal’s decision to dump eight billion liters of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River.
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RITCHIE CALLS ON IJC TO INVESTIGATE MONTREAL’S PLANS TO DUMP SEWAGE INTO ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
State Senator Patty Ritchie is calling on the International Join Commission (IJC)—the group tasked with protecting the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes—to investigate the City of Montreal’s decision to dump eight billion liters of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River.
State Senator Patty Ritchie is calling on the International Join Commission (IJC)—the group tasked with protecting the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes—to investigate the City of Montreal’s decision to dump eight billion liters of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River.
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Lana Pollack
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Washington, D.C. 20440
Gordon Walker
Canadian Chair
International Joint Commission
234 Laurier Avenue West
22" Floor
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Dear Commissioners Pollack and Walker:
I would like to ask the International Joint Commission (LIC) to investigate Montreal's d
‘dump eight billion cubic litres of sewage into the St. Lawrence River.
‘The City of Montreal plans to dump the equivalent of 2,600 Olympic-sized
filled with wastewater from homes and businesses into North America’s most b
October 18. City officials say it was an unavoidable part of the reconstruction of a
expressway. While this was a common practice up until the 1980s, most comm
work into their infrastructure upgrades ways to avoid polluting our waterways.Canada and the United States created the International Joint Commission to help protect the St.
Lawrence River and Great Lakes. While I realize that the dumping will occur in Canadian
waters, downstream from any U.S. communities, I am very concerned by the precedent
Montreal is setting for other communities along the St. Lawrence and the lakes.
Thank you for your consideration.
Yatty Ritchie
State Senator
ce: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Senator Chuck Schumer
Save The River
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