MONTREAL — Work continued Friday to clean up the second oil spill in two weeks in the St. Lawrence River off eastern Montreal.
The Quebec Environment Department has confirmed that the two spills in the Pointe-aux-Trembles district involved motor oil that flowed into the river from a city storm sewer. Officials are working with the City of Montreal to figure out how the oil ended up in the sewers.
On Thursday afternoon, the coast guard transferred responsibility for the cleanup to the provincial government after it was confirmed that the contamination was from a source on land. The earlier spill was reported on July 11 in a similar location in the river off Pointe-aux-Trembles. A total of 19,000 litres of water mixed with about 1,000 litres of oil were pumped from the river after that first spill, but officials couldn’t find the source at the time.A government spokesperson said the two spills involved motor oil"with the same profile" and that work continues to find the source of the contamination.
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