Down to one sewage truck, Nunavut community declares state of emergency – Nunatsiaq News
February 11, 2015
“People have had to move out of their homes” says Pond Inlet’s MLA, Joe Enook
Officials in Pond Inlet declared a state of emergency Feb. 10, six weeks after the Baffin community began to suffer problems with trucked sewage and water service.
Right after Christmas, the hamlet started having issues with its three sewage trucks, as well as its handful of water trucks, which service the community of about 1,500 people.
As of Feb. 10, the hamlet was down to one operating sewage truck, said deputy mayor Joshua Arreak. That prompted an emergency meeting of community officials later Feb. 10, who then called the state of emergency.
The hamlet is now asking the community to conserve water, and has issued a plea to the Government of Nunavut to immediately deliver two new sewage trucks by Hercules aircraft — trucks that were originally expected to arrive in Pond Inlet by sealift this summer.
