Update: According to city and borough officials, water service has been restored to homes near the Turcot Interchange construction site as of 8 a.m. Monday.
A boil water advisory is in effect for at least 24 hours.
Original story:
When Giovanni Paquin uses the bathroom, he has to think ahead.
For the past three days, the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce resident has been digging snow in his alley to flush his toilet.
Friday morning, residents like Paquin, who live on Girouard Avenue near Saint-Jacques Street, received word that a landslide near the Turcot construction site damaged a water main.
At a press conference Sunday afternoon, Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough Mayor Russell Copeman said it was unclear what caused the problem to begin with.
Paquin said the borough has been responsive to residents’ needs, dropping off drinking water by their doorsteps on a daily basis.
Others however are furious the situation has lingered, and angered at both the borough and Quebec’s Transport Ministry, who oversees the construction.
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Water service is expected to resume by Monday.
Global News reached out to Transports Québec, but requests for comment went unanswered.
This is the second time a complaint has surfaced in the span of a week.
A businessman filed an application for a class action earlier against the ministry.