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Blame geese, not humans, for summer bummer at Ottawa beaches

Blame geese, not humans, for summer bummer at Ottawa beaches

Ottawa swimmers have faced the summer buzzkill of E. coli bacteria before, but this time human sewage isn't the culprit. Blame it on the goose poop. The City of Ottawa thought it had solved the bacteria problem at its worst hit beaches when it built a sewage storage tunnel to prevent sewage from overflowing and contaminating the Ottawa River.