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Originally Posted by k925
My point is that your city's sewage is probably heavily diluted before it even reaches your toes on the beach (unless, of course, you're playing around in the direct flow of the sewage).
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That is still no excuse for dumping what amounts to raw sewage into the environment.
We have technology to clean our waste by product and cities that fail to use this should be forced to... I know in Toronto we have some very thorough sewage treatment going on. The one problem we did have was that when our storm drains overflowed (during particulary high rainfall) it would mix with our sewage drains and that would in turn, flow directly into the lake.
When this would occur the inevitable beach closings would start happening across waterfront.
They recently build a massive catch basin down by the lake to hold this overflow until it could be properly treated.