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.
Cleanup crews from Hydro One are continuing their work at the Don River on Saturday after an oil spill from one of its transmission sites leaked into the river a day earlier. Nancy Clark, a spokesperson for Hydro One, said one of the company's transformers at the Bathurst Transmission Station in North York failed early Friday, resulting in insulating mineral oil being released.
The town of Terrace Bay will remain under a boil water advisory for most of this week after a lightning strike cut power to the northwestern Ontario town's water treatment plant on the weekend. Terrace Bay Mayor Jody Davis said the strike occurred during a storm on Sunday night. And while there were no injuries, some of the plant's equipment was damaged. "A breaker was hit," Davis said Monday. "One of the transformers, which is for the water treatment generator, emergency generator, it got fried."
