Grassy Narrows Declares State of Emergency over Drinking Water – Netnewsledger.com
August 28, 2016
GRASSY NARROWS – Grassy Narrows First Nation has declared a State of Emergency. The emergency is the state of drinking water in the community. For the past year, Grassy Narrows First Nation has been under a Boil Water Advisory. However the community says that even boiling the water isn’t making the water safe for drinking.
“We are scared that our drinking water has been unsafe for a long time now and the federal government does not seem to care at all,” Grassy Narrows Councillor Rudy Turtle reports, “Our people have already been poisoned by mercury and now we have to deal with unsafe drinking water.”
The community located near Kenora Ontario, says that tests of their water conducted over the summer are showing tricholormethanes, haloacetic acids and hexaclorcyclopentadiene — all disinfectant byproducts which are considered potential carcinogens.
The Grassy Narrows Chief and Council state that government tests which were conducted in 2015 found turgidity levels in the water, the clearness of the water was at 120 times more than what is considered a safe level for human consumption.
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