Canada Global(Web News)An equipment malfunction at one of Edmonton’s two water treatment plants is causing concern for residents of several communities around Edmonton.
EPCOR and surrounding municipalities were forced to issue a ban on non-essential water use on Monday afternoon.
The plant supplies water not only to the city of Edmonton, but to many surrounding communities, including Sherwood Park, St. Albert, Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, Leduc, Beaumont, Fort Saskatchewan and Morinville.
A juggler of drinking water at a truck-fill station in Beaver County said that if it shut down, it would affect us. If the station shut down and it didn’t taste good, we would have to start drinking our well water “
Nitsche said he received an email from the county informing him of the water ban.
“I’ve been here 35 years and I’ve never heard of no water,
” said Brian Ducherer, chairman of the Highway 14 Regional Water Commission. We decided to open all truck fills and allow all residents to fill two cubes per day which is around 2,000 litres.”
Ducherer said. “You just have to adjust and make sure you use less water,”
the commission oversees the water supply from Epcor through Strathcona County and stretches along Highway 14 into Beaver County. The municipality includes the town of Tofield, the village of Rylee, the village of Holden and the town of Viking.
