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The assemblage has been collecting h2o straight from a adjacent lake, aft a tube froze implicit the winter. The Kativik Regional Government said a h2o transportation motortruck spilled lipid during 1 of those h2o runs.
KRG says lipid spilled from a h2o transportation motortruck into the water the colony draws h2o from
Samuel Wat · CBC News
· Posted: Jun 25, 2025 1:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago
Officials are investigating for imaginable contamination successful Quaqtaq's drinking h2o source, aft an lipid spill 2 weeks ago.
The Nunavik, Que., assemblage has been facing issues with h2o delivery, aft a conception of a captious pipeline froze implicit the winter.
The assemblage has been driving to the water straight to cod water. The spill occurred during 1 of those h2o runs, according to Kativik Regional Government (KRG) chairperson Hilda Snowball.
"One of the loaders got stuck connected the lake, and determination was an lipid spill from that loader," she said.
The size of the spill is not yet known, but investigating is present underway to find if the h2o is harmless to drink. Results from those are expected aboriginal this week, and Snowball said that volition find whether h2o trucks and tanks volition necessitate cleaning.
With those trial results pending, KRG is sending bottled h2o to Quaqtaq arsenic a precaution.
"After the concern successful Puvirnituq, we had secured a batch of h2o bottles, truthful we volition beryllium sending h2o bottles to Quaqtaq."
Quaqtaq is 1 of 3 Nunavik communities that experienced frozen pipes this winter.
In Puvirnituq, the resulting h2o shortage triggered a authorities of exigency successful May. A reappraisal is present underway successful that assemblage to find what precisely triggered the crisis.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Samuel Wat is simply a newsman with CBC Nunavut based successful Iqaluit. He was antecedently successful Ottawa, and successful New Zealand earlier that. You tin scope him astatine samuel.wat@cbc.ca
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