Water delivered to Stanley Mission residents due to treatment plant issues
Lac La Ronge Indian Band Coun. Jimmy Charles is hopeful the current drinking water situation in Stanley Mission will be resolved soon.
In recent days, water consumption has been limited due to a number of issues affecting the water treatment plant. Charles explained the main problem is the fact that not enough water is reaching the wet well.
“The problem is the water level on the river. It keeps dropping and the water levels have dropped maybe a good eight feet from what we are used to for the past 30 years,” he said.
“The water has been pretty high and this is probably the lowest it’s been since maybe 1990 or 1988. When the water treatment plant was built around 27 years ago or so, the water was pretty high, so we didn’t anticipate that we would hit low water levels once again. Now, our raw water intake is sitting higher than the lake itself, so it can’t cavitate any water into the wet well.”