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The owner of the Meadowbrook Golf Course has won a case in Quebec Superior Court ordering Montreal to bury a creek that is the last remnant of the St-Pierre River, which once wound its way from Mount Royal to Old Montreal.

But even though it won, developer Meadowbrook Groupe Pacific Inc. is appealing the ruling to ensure that the Quebec environment department cannot block the judgment from being carried out.

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Judge Chantal Corriveau ruled on June 7 that the city must apply for a permit from the Quebec environment department “to undertake work to put an end to all contamination by the Meadowbrook creek … by covering it over, diverting it or other measures to stop the flow of contaminated water within four months of the present judgment and complete the work within 18 months.”

The winding, 200-metre creek emerges from a storm sewer pipe at one end of the 57-hectare green space and disappears into a stone culvert at the other end.