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What happens when a water treatment plant isn operating as it should be?

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What happens when a water treatment plant isn operating as it should be?

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Weagamow Lake First Nation is in the process of finding out. October 3, 2002: Volume 29 #20 “We’ve been having problems with the water treatment plant ever since it was completed,” says Weagamow Coun. Thomas Quequish. Ironically, says Quequish, raw water directly from the lake is of better quality than what community members receive from their taps. For example, the water treatment plant process is responsible for the tap water’s increased turbidity level, he explains. According to Health Canada, turbidity “is a measure of the relative cloudiness of water, and is influenced by the suspension in water of fine particles such as soil and organic matter. These materials are often transported into drinking water reservoirs in the (water treatment plants) by run-off caused by rainfall, most often during the fall and winter.” Turbidity is measured in nephelometric turbidity units (NTUs), which is not a direct measure of suspended particles but a measure of their scattering effect on light. Cl

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