Sewergate

• City of Hamilton pleads guilty to provincial charges for 4-year sewage spill into creek

  Hamilton will be paying out close to $3 million in fines, damages and incidental costs as a result of the guilty plea following the Chedoke Creek sewage spill revealed in 2019.

  Environment

  Jul 20, 2023
  
• Ontario approves Hamilton plan to clean Cootes Paradise

  The plan is in response to the spilling of 24 billion litres of sewage and wastewater into Chedoke Creek between 2014 and 2018.

  Environment

  Aug 25, 2021
  
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• Cootes Paradise cleanup strategies include in-water aeration, floating wetland

  The province is already reviewing the City of Hamilton's plan for targeted dredging within Chedoke Creek, a plan that was submitted ahead of a previous Feb. 22 deadline.

  Environment

  Mar 17, 2021
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• City of Hamilton faces provincial charges for 4-year spill into Chedoke Creek

  The city's lawyers say they are reviewing accusations from the ministry of the environment relating to a sewage spill into Chedoke Creek that began in 2014.

  Dec 9, 2020
• Chedoke Creek sewage spill subject of 61 ombudsman complaints against City of Hamilton

  The Ombudsman report also notes that the city of Hamilton was the focus of 154 complaints in 2019.

  Jul 1, 2020
• Bill Kelly: We can’t let #SewageGate define us

  The #SewageGate scandal has gained national attention and has put Hamilton in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, Bill Kelly says.

  Commentary

  Dec 10, 2019