"Stored" the sewage for three million people? The Island of Montreal has more bums on toilet seats than six of the provinces have people ... The Island of Montreal and it's immediate surroundings in the St. Lawrence Valley generate the equivalent amount of sewage of Saskatchewan, Manitoa and Nova Scotia. Their ain't no sewage lagoons in existence that can "store" that. It would be gigantic, multibillion dollar artificial "great lake". What Montreal DOES have is the Atlantic Ocean about a week's flow downstream from them and they made use of that geography for a one-time emergency to fix a major infrastructure project. You just don't like the French.
It was possible only a $1 Billion dollar price tag stopped them
LINK[url]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-sewage-decision-river-pollution-1.3253800[/URL]
"We studied all other alternatives, and this is the only option."
The city estimates it would cost $1 billion to build a temporary diversion or storage area for wastewater.
Mayor Denis Coderre had temporarily put the brakes on the plan after a public backlash earlier this week, saying it needed a second look.
44 Million barrels to store Oil companies are expected to store and treat 1.5 Trillion litres a year in the Oilsands. They could have at least rented a centrifuge and separated liquids from solids and treated the liquids and stored the solids for compost or post treat.