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Waste Water Is Spread on the Ground

Black and white photograph of a pipe coming out of a building covered with tar paper and spilling its contents onto wooden planks. In the background, a pile of wood.

Date : 1942

Credits : BAnQ Québec, ministère de la Culture et des Communications fonds

There being no sewage system in Roc-d’Or, there is no waste water treatment. Thus, according to the Roc-d’Or Inquiry Report, “a thick layer of black mud covers some of the lots. Stagnant water cannot flow and attracts swarms of flies and insects. In some places, rudimentary ditches have been dug, it seems, mostly, to provide the children with a place to play.”