On this day in 1914, the City of Edmonton was under a court order to clean up its act when it came to dumping sewage into the North Saskatchewan River. The injunction had been handed down by a justice that January and meant, according to the city’s lawyer, that Edmonton would have to halt building any new sewer connections that put additional waste into the river. It also gave the city two years “to construct a proper disposal plant,” according to a short item published in an Edmonton newspaper. The story indicates that both the province and the city tried to get the injunction softened, to no avail.