Battle River Fish Death`s

[Dust1n]

On Kraze 101.3 about a day ago they mentioned that Panoka was dumping raw sewage waste into the river killing fish in the battle river. Anyone want to elaborate on this...

[Paul C]

On Kraze 101.3 a few days they mentioned that Panoka was dumping raw sewage waste into the river killing fish in the battle river. Anyone want to elaborate on this...
They got a huge fine of $70.0 dollars.:thinking-006:

[Isopod]

Here's part of the CTV article. Seems the dumping was in 2009.

Updated: Wed Dec. 07 2011 15:32:19

Julia Parrish, ctvedmonton.ca

A central Alberta town has pleaded guilty, and been fined tens of thousands of dollars, after it was found to be releasing wastewater into a nearby river two years ago.

The Town of Ponoka faced one charge under the Fisheries Act, after Environment Canada received a complaint about dead fish in the Battle River in June of 2009.

An investigation found the town was releasing water from their wastewater lagoon into the Battle River; analysis performed on samples found the outflow was harmful to fish.

As a result of the charge, the Town of Ponoka will have to pay a fine of $70,000, of the total fine, $3,750 comes from the Fisheries Act, and the remaining $66,250 is to go into the Environmental Damages Fund and will pay for conservation and protection efforts of fisheries and fish habitat in the Battle River and the surrounding area.