Northwestern Ontario First Nation asks Ottawa for help as sewage threatens water supply GlobePolitics
Chief Dinah Kanate stops to inspect a section of the winter road where raw sewage has washed over from a creek downstream of her communities lagoon in Weagamow Lake, Ontario.The sewage lagoon at the North Caribou Lake First Nation has leaked every year since the federal government constructed it in 1997.
In January, ISC provided $265,000 to the North Caribou Lake First Nation to study the feasibility of eventually replacing both the lagoon and the community’s water treatment plant. But Ms. Kanate says requests to provide emergency repairs to the broken lagoon itself were refused until she spoke to The Globe and Mail and the government offered another meeting.
“They said there was no money to deal with this, they couldn’t deal with this situation we have here,” she said in a phone interview on Monday. A consultant hired by the First Nation conducted tests that found the amount of E. coli outside the lagoon on its eastern side was so high it could not be measured.
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