The town of Fort Frances was forced to by-pass its sewage treatment plant Sunday of nearly 37-hundred cubic metres of partly-treated waste water.
Operations and Facilities Manager Doug Brown says while a rainstorm was partly to blame, the system still sees groundwater that doesn't need treatment.
"We've got to figure out how to eliminate this stuff," says Brown. "This is our biggest restriction in the town, from a growth point of view, how we're taxing the sanitary sewer system treatment process."
Brown says homeowners should not be dumping groundwater from their sump pumps into the sewer system.
