discharge from a wastewater treatment plant which turned part of the Niagara River black on the weekend<\/a> was completely above board.<\/p>\n\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of stuff that goes through those treatment plants so it doesn\u2019t strike me as being necessarily benign from a chemical standpoint,\u201d says Brindle, a renowned researcher who has spent his career studying water contamination in Niagara and beyond. \u201cThey need to educate people. They can\u2019t just do this and then seek an apology after the fact. It\u2019s disgraceful.\u201d<\/p>\n
The black water discharge surrounded the Maid of the Mist dock area on the American side of the Niagara River and was visible to the thousands of tourists in the Niagara Falls area on a busy summer weekend.<\/p>\n
This week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, as well as Niagara Falls MPP Wayne Gates have called for an investigation into what happened.<\/p>\n
Brindle says it brings back memories from 30 years ago when Atlas Steel in Welland dumped chemicals into the Welland River that turned the waterway orange.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was an extremely visible and very concerning event that happened,\u201d he says. \u201cBut there we knew what was going on because we knew where it was coming from. With a wastewater treatment plant, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re dealing with.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo say there\u2019s nothing to worry about, I\u2019d like to see the documentation. They should be reporting some numbers instead of saying \u2018everything is okay.\u2019 I\u2019ve heard that too many times before,\u201d Brindle says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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