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Rain and melting snow late last week caused sewer overflows of more than 15 million litres of mixed raw sewage, rain and snowmelt into the Ottawa River, according to city staff. In a memo, Dixon Weir, the city’s general manager of environmental services, informed councillors of the overflows on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The Ministry of the Environment’s spills centre, the public health branch and downstream water system operators have been notified, and all regulators are now working properly, Weir wrote. Last week, council approved a five-year, $251.64-million plan to fund a huge underground storage system intended to nearly eliminate discharges of raw sewage into the river.