Looking at algae blooms washing ashore reminded residents of Huron-Kinloss, Ontario, of when Lake Huron was pristine. They didn’t like seeing the mucky mess and the health department closing beaches to swimmers. They demanded action from the Township Council.
Officials turned to their civil engineering firm, B.M. Ross in Goderich, to design a septic inspection program. Although the firm had 10 years of water quality data showing onsite systems and agriculture were equal polluters, it focused on septic tanks after researchers found high E. coli levels in a stream not connected to farming and running through the middle of Point Clark.
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