Posted on July 19, 2023
Long-awaited dredging is scheduled to start this week in sewage-soaked Chedoke Creek.
After initial attempts by the city to comply with an order to clean the creek bed stalled out over an impasse with an Indigenous group, an agreement has been reached to allow work to begin.
Ontario first ordered the cleanup after The Spectator revealed the extent of a four-year, 24-billion-litre sewage spill into the west-end creek and Cootes Paradise marsh.
A flotilla of Canada geese clear out as dredging equipment is loaded onto a raft.
Kayakers head out of the area of Chedoke Creek Monday morning. Up stream workers were loading equipment onto a raft.
A dredger gets to work in Chedoke Creek.
