“We need to have water which is safe. There is no alternative”
Lheidli T’enneh First Nation’s southside and northside neighbourhoods have been without clean drinking water since the summer, and as a result, members are forced to use bottled water.
Chief Dolleen Logan has said Lheidli T’enneh’s patience has run out and she is calling on the federal government to provide the required funding needed to replace the water system.
The Nation has been under a “Do Not Use” advisory since July 2021 in both northside and southside of portions of the subdivision.
This means the water is safe to wash and clean with but not to consume and Lheidli T’enneh has been providing bottled water for its members by-weekly with unlimited refills.
“What we need is a new system altogether which brings in state-of-the-art technology because water is not something we can negotiate about,” said Zawad Abedin, Lheidli T’enneh’s manager of capital projects.
“We need to have water which is safe. There is no alternative.”
Abedin explained the issue is the groundwater has a high concentration of manganese, over 1 mg/l, and the current system of water softener and absorption filters frequently fails to perform to remove the manganese
“The system we are having right now is based on the filox and softener and that is not good enough when you have the manganese concentration above 1 mg/1 which is quite high compared to the B.C. average of 0.3,” said Abedin.
Even after the current system was serviced by...
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