Muddy water at Coppermine

Kugluktuk residents are sick of drinking cloudy water when spring break-up churns up sediments in the Coppermine River, which provides the community with its water supply.

“The water may meet standards for health,” says Kugluktuk MLA Joe Allen Evyagotailak, “but I have heard residents say that it’s like drinking mud.”

Funding for a water treatment investigation is scheduled into 2006-07 of the five-year capital plan, but Evyagotailak would like to see the investigation start sooner.