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Today’s must-read
The finishing touches are being put on four massive fibreglass sewage pipes inside a two-and-a-half metre thick concrete tunnel 20 metres underground.
When the work is done, they’ll start pumping out millions of litres of raw sewage per day.
The building that houses them may look modest, but it was made with as much concrete as half of the Canada Life Centre, with still some to go.
Under-construction access shafts at the North End wastewater treatment plant. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
“We’ve got at least double that in the balance of the facility in other areas,” said Rob Black, the project director for the upgrade of the North End sewage treatment plant on Main Street North.
The City of Winnipeg showed off the nearly completed first phase of its $3-billion wastewater treatment plant Wednesday, as it stressed the need for a significant amount of funding to complete all phases of the complex project. Nicole Buffie has the story.
On the bright side
One student’s trash has become another student’s research sample at Robertson School.
Manitoba schools are feeding more than 90,000 students daily through the province’s universal nutrition program.
Concerned about the prevalence of single-use packaging tied to snack program, first piloted last year, the environmental club recently pitched a schoolwide investigation.
Robertson School’s environmental club initiated a building-wide audit of snack-related garbage this month. (Maggie Macintosh / Free Press)
The project began with Grade 3, 4 and 5 students researching the lifespan of different materials.
Elementary students then led a “snack audit” last week to uncover exactly what’s ending up in garbage bins. Maggie Macintosh has more here.
On this date
On Feb. 12, 1979: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in New York, the Soviet Union’s national hockey team clobbered the NHL all-star team 6-0 and won the three-game Challenge Cup series. In Tehran, Iran’s new revolutionary government announced that resistance to it by the forces of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi had ended. In Winnipeg, city assessors told residents of 12 senior citizens’ residences they would have to pay school taxes in 1979 — for the first time. Search our archives for more here.
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