New Brunswick community faces boil advisory after days without running water
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Hundreds of residents in an Oromocto small-homes community are facing a boil-water advisory after spending days, including Christmas, without access to running water.
Jacob Porter woke up around 7 a.m. on Dec. 22 to get ready for work. That’s when he released the toilet wouldn’t flush.
“It’s unpleasant to say the least,” he said.
The water in his community, Tamarack Estates in Oromocto N.B., was off for residents of its 416 lots.
Porter said he and his wife had to wait six more days, including Christmas, before they got access to their water again.
“We had a Charlie Brown Christmas,” he said. That included using the washroom and cleaning up when they visited family. As of Dec. 30, the Department of Health still had a boil order issued for the community.
“It’s a very basic right as a tenant to have drinkable water,” he said.
Residents in the community own their homes but rent the plots of land.
The company that owns Tamarack Estates, Canadian Apartment Properties REIT (CAPREIT), told residents in an email that the disruption was due to a leak in the underground water system. The email also said it wasn’t a simple water leak and lacked identifiable markers for workers to find and repair it.
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