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.
Some residents in a Montreal borough are trying to determine why yellow water is flowing out of their taps -- but to no avail, they say. The taps of at least three triplexes on Saint-Henri's St-Antoine St. have been affected for two weeks. Resident Andre Duchesne said he and his neighbours reached out to the city for help but have not received any guidance. "They say they're going to look into it, and we didn't get an answer," he told CTV News.
Callander’s operations department is teaming up with the Ontario Clean Water Agency to flush the entire drinking water distribution system within the municipality. Work begins today and carries on until Friday, September 10, between 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. During this process, the municipality warns that some residents may encounter discoloured water. Rust or sedimentation may also be visible in water throughout the week.
“Sick building syndrome, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), recognizes the syndrome in buildings that at least 20 per cent of the occupants complain of the same the same illness: it can be headache, it can be diarrhea, it can be gastrointestinal illnesses,” says Gil Blutrich, founder and CEO of Clear, an air and water purifying company in Toronto. New York experienced water problems due to old infrastructure. “When it started to run through the pipes in New York city, the average age of the piping is over 100 years old so when the pipe started to rust, only 75 per cent reached the building, the rest disappeared, dissipated through a hole in the system.” This produced a problem called the “last mile syndrome,” says Blutrich, where the water is coming out and pathogen and bacteria is coming in.
