Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.
With so-called one-in-100-years storms happening at least once a year now in Hamilton, Miranda Burton says preparing for potential flooding is more urgent than ever. And that's why her organization is trying to mobilize people to do just that. Burton, program manager for the Hamilton not-for-profit Green Venture, says they're trying to get Hamiltonians to look at overland water flow differently.
