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Creek pollution

Creek pollution

Date9/12/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: Creek pollution: This is the point in Highland Creek where raw sewage has been pouring in for more than 6 weeks. A recent surge in home and commercial building has caused more waste than the Morningside Ave. pumping station can handle and the surplus is spilling into an overflow pipe that leads to the creek. Metro Works Department is working frantically to install a fourth pump at station.
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0011002F
Pollution pours into Lake Ontario out of the mouth of Etobicoke Creek, adding yet another ingredient to a recipe of toxins poisoning this natural resource
Pollution pours into Lake Ontario out of the mouth of Etobicoke Creek, adding yet another ingredient to a recipe of toxins poisoning this natural resource
6/18/1984
It's a clear water wagon, This truck-mounted portable water treatment plant, built by Union Carbide, was too big to get into the Pollution Control Sho(...)
It's a clear water wagon, This truck-mounted portable water treatment plant, built by Union Carbide, was too big to get into the Pollution Control Sho(...)
6/15/1972
Lab technicians Keith Austen (foreground) and Harry Alkema test Lake Ontario water samples for nutrients aboard the motor vessel Martin Karlsen, a floating pollution research laboratory
Lab technicians Keith Austen (foreground) and Harry Alkema test Lake Ontario water samples for nutrients aboard the motor vessel Martin Karlsen, a floating pollution research laboratory
4/5/1971
Testing for stream pollution
Testing for stream pollution
1959
Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans, as seen above. He refutes critic(...)
Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans, as seen above. He refutes critic(...)
8/28/1969
Junk cleared out of the Black Creek Ravin in the Jane-Finch area of North York is moved aside by 11-year-old Jeannette Reid, a Grade 5 pupil at Derryd(...)
Junk cleared out of the Black Creek Ravin in the Jane-Finch area of North York is moved aside by 11-year-old Jeannette Reid, a Grade 5 pupil at Derryd(...)
6/23/1974
Observers were recruited to don hip waders and place booms across Sixteen Mile Creek during demonstration
Observers were recruited to don hip waders and place booms across Sixteen Mile Creek during demonstration
11/16/1978
Warning Polluted Waters Persons Bathing Do So At Their Own Risk, Pollution Warning Marking a beach in Metro
Warning Polluted Waters Persons Bathing Do So At Their Own Risk, Pollution Warning Marking a beach in Metro
7/25/1969
Toronto was forced to close beaches last summer because of pollution
Toronto was forced to close beaches last summer because of pollution
7/21/1983
A Sample of water is taken from the west-branch of Don River yesterday by Mayor William Dennison, to be sent to a laboratory for a pollution test. May(...)
A Sample of water is taken from the west-branch of Don River yesterday by Mayor William Dennison, to be sent to a laboratory for a pollution test. May(...)
5/14/1971
Sign of the times: The warnings against using Metro's beaches may be up indefinitely, as officials fear sewer improvements, costing $250 million, may not be enough to clean up pollution
Sign of the times: The warnings against using Metro's beaches may be up indefinitely, as officials fear sewer improvements, costing $250 million, may not be enough to clean up pollution
7/26/1987
The waterfront will be off-limits to swimmers once again this summer because of high pollution levels
The waterfront will be off-limits to swimmers once again this summer because of high pollution levels
7/25/1987