City issues notice about water quality
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This article was published 17/09/2012 (4855 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The City of Winnipeg has issued another notice about discoloured drinking water, which it attributes to watermain breaks during a dry summer.
Clay soils in some areas of the city have dried out and shifted, leading some water pipes to burst, the city says in a notice, urging Winnipeggers not to drink discoloured water or cook or clean with it. Nonetheless, the discoloured water does not pose a public-health threat, the city says.
This is the second such notice of the summer. The city claims it has reduced the number of watermain breaks by a factor of five over the last 25 years, mainly through pipe replacements.
Winnipeg’s drinking water is treated by a $300-million treatment plant which opened in December 2009 at Deacon Reservoir.
History
Updated on Monday, September 17, 2012 1:05 PM CDT: The Deacon Reservoir treatment plant opened in December 2009.
Updated on Monday, September 17, 2012 1:49 PM CDT: Warning and advisory changed to notice in copy and headline.