Ottawa vows to fix lagoon spewing sewage into North Caribou Lake First Nation GlobePolitics
North Caribou Lake First Nations chief Dinah Kanate says Indigenous Services Canada officials plan to be in the community on Monday to discuss a lagoon that has leaked every year since its construction, but burst open this winter.
After a story about the sewage problem appeared this week in The Globe and Mail, Seamus O’Regan, the Indigenous Affairs Minister, called Ms. Kanate to tell her that the flow from the lagoon would be stopped. 'Yuck,' chief Dinah Kanate, right, mutters as she and Ernest Quequist inspect a section of the winter road where, hidden by drifted snow, raw sewage has washed over from a creek downstream of her community's lagoon in Weagamow Lake, Ont.Water samples are now finding positive levels of E. coli near the lake as the spring melt approaches, threatening to flood the lagoon further and discharge vast quantities of raw sewage.Ms.
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