The Manitoba government has charged the city over a massive sewage spill that dumped hundreds of millions of litres of untreated wastewater into the Red River last year.

It's been almost a year since a pipe carrying raw sewage under the river near the Fort Garry Bridge broke on Feb. 7, 2024. City crews had discovered problems with the pipe in November and were in the process of fixing it when the pipe failed.

It took the city weeks to install a bypass system, leading to 230 million litres of sewa…