Mr. Magrath. Have you any complaint to make against the Canadian municipalities in the matter of pollution?
Mr. Irving. No; we are all in the same boat.
Mr. Mignault. Have you actually made any studies with regard to a sewage purification plant?
Mr. Irving. We never have. It has never been contemplated. It is one of those questions that I presume we felt was a bridge that would have to be crossed some time.
Mr. Magrath. How is your sewerage system situated with regard to a purification plant? Have you one outlet or several?
Mr. Irving. We have about 15 outlets altogether.
Mr. Mignault. It would be necessary to have an interceptor?
Mr. Irving. I may say that while Col. Waring suggested that at some time some different system of disposal would be necessary, he did not provide in the plan for any connection. You see we are lying right along the front of the St. Lawrence, and our outlets reach from up at one end of the city down to the other.
Mr. Mignault. Where is your waterworks intake?
Mr. Irving. The intake is well up above any local sewage. The water commissioners will explain all that to you and give you some valuable information regarding the contamination that they discovered when they put in the intake.