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Wastewater & Stormwater collections operators Levi Willie (left) and Alex McKechnie perform a manhole chamber inspection in Hamilton, Ontario.
Photography by Ron Scheffler
Hamilton Water in the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario, treats over 342 billion gallons of wastewater per year. But the system that conveys all that wastewater is more than 150 years old.
The city’s overall sewer system has about 1,948 miles of pipes split nearly equally...
