New water treatment plant ‘definitely coming’ for Potlotek First Nation after years of brown water – CBC

We’ve been waiting 40 years for this,’ says Chief Wilbert Marshall

Jan 12, 2018

The Mi’kmaq community of Potlotek in Nova Scotia has signed documents to begin construction on a new water treatment facility after decades of dealing with brown, smelly water, unfit for drinking.

Since December 2013, Health Canada issued boil water advisories for Potlotek for a total of 539 days, and do-not-consume orders for 79 days, a spokesperson for Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada told CBC News.

INAC added that the boil water notices were “precautionary and not as a result of unsafe drinking water.”

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