Suzanne Lajoie snapped this photo of water in her bathtub August 23. She says her once white bath pillow has been stained brown.
The mayor of Casselman, Ont., is preparing to meet the province’s infrastructure minister to discuss the high levels of manganese that have turned her municipality’s water a murky brown periodically for the better part of a decade.The mayor of Casselman, Ont.
The problem: the 22-kilometre project is estimated by Mayor Geneviève Lajoie to cost more than $100 million in the short term — a sizeable price tag for a town of only a few thousand people.
"I want them to feel that they have a voice at the table," she said. "I think it's important that people have that sense of control over the situation." Last summer, the Eastern Ontario Health Unit cautioned parents not to use the water for baby formula because the levels were surpassing Health Canada's recommendations.She called the proposal to connect the town to its neighbour's water system a long-term solution to the community's water woes, but added it's not the only measure being taken.
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