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Issue 70
November 16, 2006


 Weather Trivia Sun & Clouds 
EnviroZine:  Environmnent Canada's On-line Newsmagazine
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 Weather Trivia

On this day... Dec 13, 2004

'Farmers in southern Alberta usually empty their sewage lagoons in the spring and fall. But this year, crops were harvested late and farmers put off spreading sewage on the frozen land, because it could not be absorbed. One family with an asthmatic son had to move off their farm near Donalda because of odours coming from nearby sprayed fields. Eventually, snow capped the effluent and its smells.'

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