HALIFAX – After a year-long battle for clean water, there is more troubling news for residents in Lake Echo, Nova Scotia.
Saturday morning, people living in a mobile home park in the community were told they are on a boil water order because of a broken water main. The park is owned and operated by Killam Properties and representatives from the company were going door-to-door handing out the notices on Easter Saturday.
The advisory will be lifted once two consecutive water tests come back clear.
Joan Wagner has lived in the area for the past 25 years and says there have been 10 boil water advisories in the past 12 months.
“We’ve gone 420 to 430 days without water, that means boiling your water for everything,” she says. “Then they put us on these new wells, we’ve been on the new wells for three months, and we’ve had two boil advisories already, so the problem obviously isn’t taken care of. It’s very frustrating.”
To make matters worse, Wagner says this time, the company shut the water off completely, without notice.
Water woes have plagued the area for some time.
Earlier in 2013, Bruce Baillie took Killam Properties to court over the issue. He was successful in his suit against them. Killam is appealing the decision.
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