M.L. boil water advisory could last weeks: City
While staff members from waterworks department for the City of Meadow Lake have been working around the clock testing the water quality, it could be a while before the precautionary drinking water advisory is called off.
The advisory was put into place for the city and Flying Dust First Nation on Friday, May 11 under advisement from the Saskatchewan Water Security Agency. The water coming from Meadow River has a high level of turbidity, which is the lack of clarity or brilliance in water. While it has no direct health affect, it can interfere with disinfection and provide a medium for microbial growth, according to Sask. H2O.
City Manager Diana Burton said staff members are doing everything possible to resolve the issue as fast as possible, but the PWDA will be in place indefinitely.
“We don’t have an estimate for when it will be removed,” Burton said. “Once we get some satisfactory tested water, it will take a few weeks before we can remove the advisory, because the waterworks department will have to submit some treated water samples that will have to meet our regulatory requirements and then some.”