Dartmouth is a city of polluted lakes. Will that change soon?
“After years of wrangling between the province and the city, regional council is soon going to figure out how much money it’s willing to spend to clean up the lakes in Dartmouth.
The cleanup of the lakes has been stalled due to what Claudia Chender, MLA for Dartmouth South, calls ‘jurisdictional jockeying.’ She explains that ‘the province (is) technically in charge of all lakes in the province, and their health. Like they’re in charge of waterways, municipalities are in charge of the urban environment'.’ This created a situation where, if citizens see a problem with the lakes, ‘they call the city and the city tells them to call the province and then the province tells them to call the city and then no one does anything.’
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