Water Quality

 The links below talk specifically about Water Quality, and the type of poisons that are released into streams, rivers and ground aquifers resulting from the daily operations of an Airport.

                                              Black Hole of Conservation Water Pollution Page                                                           "Pearson International Airport is discharging oxygen-demanding effluents hundreds of times in excess of the federal guidelines, particularly during the winter deicing months. These discharges end up in Mimico and Etobicoke creeks and they later end up in Lake Ontario. These pollutants are similar to the effect of untreated sewage from a city of 35,000 to 40,000 people...”

                                    Toronto and Region Conservation “Protecting our Water” Page                                         “Clean water is the cornerstone of life. The best way to protect water is to manage it on a watershed basis - protecting both water and the land it flows through.”