LeCanadian

Top Menu

  • Login
  • Archives
  • Les Actualités
  • Advertising
  • Sexy Pages
  • Contact Us

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Foodie
  • Headline
  • Health
  • Editorials
  • Lifestyle
  • Sports
  • UFO · Exopolitics
  • City
  • Sexuality
  • Dating
  • Login
  • Archives
  • Les Actualités
  • Advertising
  • Sexy Pages
  • Contact Us

logo

Header Banner

LeCanadian

  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Foodie
  • Headline
  • Health
  • Editorials
  • Lifestyle
  • Sports
  • UFO · Exopolitics
  • City
  • Sexuality
  • Dating
  • Comment gérer un retard de vol ?

  • 5 ways sudoku boosts brain health

  • 10 tips to successfully market your law firm

  • 7 Amazing Gifts for Kids Who Like to Cook

  • Make Mortgage Overpayments Work for You

Montreal
Home›Montreal›Is Montreal’s lead problem worse than Flint, Michigan’s?

Is Montreal’s lead problem worse than Flint, Michigan’s?

By admin
November 17, 2019
1024
0
Share:

Lead levels in the tap water of some parts of Montreal are as high as those in Flint, Michigan, at the peak of their water crisis in 2015, says a senior city official.

The official confirmed the numbers from thousands of water test results obtained during a joint investigation by Global News, The Toronto Star, Le Devoir and Concordia’s Institute for Investigative Journalism.

But municipal and provincial government officials both say that Montreal’s water is safe and that the situation in the metropolis is different than the crisis that struck the American city.

6:50The secrets of Canada’s tap water, explained

The secrets of Canada’s tap water, explained

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante has also introduced new measures to remove lead from the city’s tap water in the wake of this investigation’s findings. Among the changes will be a requirement for all underground lead pipes to be replaced, on both sides of the property line.

She told Global News in an interview that Montreal would do the work and bill the owners for their own portion of the replacement, giving households 15 years to pay the bill. The city is also offering free filters to households with high lead levels in their tap water, as well as introducing a new website that will allow people to search to see if their address might have a lead problem.

Flint’s crisis sprang from a decision to draw water from a more corrosive water source into an old and deteriorating lead pipe infrastructure.

The result was a perfect public health storm.

Headlines around the world highlighted not just lead-contaminated drinking water but the deaths of 12 people from a Legionnaire’s outbreak, as bacteria spread through the water system.

Montreal has tens of thousands of lead service lines underground that link its water mains to the homes of nearly 300,000 people, according to city estimates. As a result, these residents in houses or apartment buildings with eight dwellings or less are at risk of getting traces of the neurotoxin mixed into the water, every time they open their taps.

Post Views: 1,124
Previous Article

The Montreal Metro is pretty filthy, according ...

Next Article

Montreal borough can restrict fast food restaurants ...

0
Shares
  • 0
  • +
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Related articles More from author

  • Montreal

    Montreal aims to smooth relations between homeless people and their Milton Park neighbours

    July 14, 2021
    By admin
  • Montreal

    Place Carmin Is Montreal’s Chic New French Brasserie

    July 11, 2021
    By admin
  • Montreal

    Montreal WW II hero, largely unknown at home, honoured as Dutch town’s saviour

    May 21, 2018
    By admin
  • Montreal

    Châteauguay Valley High School raises $1K in cookie bake sale for students in Haiti

    May 25, 2018
    By admin
  • Montreal

    Montreal Is Offering Free Street Parking Downtown Every Day For The Rest Of 2020

    November 25, 2020
    By admin
  • Montreal

    8 Montreal Restaurants That Sadly Closed In 2020

    January 3, 2021
    By admin


AWeber Smart Designer




Popupar Articles

  • Week
  • Month

Week

Sorry. No data so far.

Month

Sorry. No data so far.

Popular on The Le Canadian

  1. Salon du Livre d'Ottawa
  2. Ottawa Book Expo
  3. AgoraCosmopolitan
  4. Agora Publishing Consortium
  5. Le Journal Canadien
  6. Dominion: Food News
  7. LeCanadian.com
  8. The Ottawa Star
  9. Capitalistocracy.com
  10. Agora Books Author House
  11. First Nations Press
  12. Toronto Digital Flog Newspaper
  13. The Etiquette Show
  14. Ontario People's Front

Recent Posts

  • Comment gérer un retard de vol ?
  • 5 ways sudoku boosts brain health
  • 10 tips to successfully market your law firm
  • 7 Amazing Gifts for Kids Who Like to Cook
  • Make Mortgage Overpayments Work for You
  • Son shares warning for immunocompromised after fully-vaccinated Tampa Bay dad dies from COVID-19
  • Catching Covid-19 after being vaccinated isn’t a myth. It happened to me
  • My COVID Story: “I got COVID after being fully vaccinated”
  • Albertans fully vaccinated for COVID-19 urged to stay cautious during pandemic’s 4th wave
  • I got the vaccine – and then I got Covid: Readers share their stories

Most Viewed Posts

No Posts found

Visitors

  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Foodie
  • Headline
  • Health
  • Editorials
  • Lifestyle
  • Sports
  • UFO · Exopolitics
  • City
  • Sexuality
  • Dating