No timeline for city to resume water intake from North Sask River
There is still no timeline for Prince Albert to reopen the water treatment intake from the North Saskatchewan River.
City manager Jim Toye spoke to paNOW to provide an update on the recent water quality assessments done by the Water Security Agency (WSA) in the wake of July’s Husky Energy oil spill. The city of Prince Albert closed the intake from the river on July 24.
“We don’t have a timeline on [reopening the intake] yet,” Toye said. “Our regulatory body is the Water Security Agency and they will be the ones that will tell us when we can start.”
Preliminary results of water quality tests done by the provincial agency have been positive so far, with only one result exceeding their standard for safe drinking water. Sixteen samples, however, have shown the water is not safe for aquatic life.